{"id":507,"date":"2015-05-14T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/l71.137.mytemp.website\/?page_id=507"},"modified":"2026-10-23T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:03:34","slug":"town-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/town-history\/","title":{"rendered":"County History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lamar County Mississippi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lamar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,222. Its county seat is Purvis. Named for Confederate Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the county was carved out of Marion County to the west in 1904.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lamar County is part of the Hattiesburg, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is largely a rural county, except for its northeast quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Geography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 500 square miles (1,300 km2), of which 497 square miles (1,290 km2) is land and 3.4 square miles (8.8 km2) (0.7%) is water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Major highways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interstate 59\r<br>U.S. Highway 11\r<br>U.S. Highway 98\r<br>Mississippi Highway 13\r<br>Mississippi Highway 42\r<br>Mississippi Highway 44<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<em>This article uses material from the Wikipedia article <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lamar_County,_Mississippi\">Lamar County Mississippi<\/a>, which is released under the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0<\/a>.<\/em>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamar County Mississippi Lamar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,222. Its county seat is Purvis. Named for Confederate Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the county was carved out of Marion County to the west in 1904. Lamar County is part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/507\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarcountyms.gov\/ms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}