Yazoo City, city (1990 pop. 12,427), seat of Yazoo co., W
central Miss., on the Yazoo River; inc. 1830. It is a trade,
processing, and industrial center in a cotton, cattle, and
soybean area. There is lumbering and catfish processing, and
machinery, transportation equipment, chemicals, clothing, and
wire products are manufactured. In the Civil War, the ironclad
ram C.S.S. Arkansas was built in a Confederate navy yard there.
Union troops occupied the city in May, 1864, and burned many of
its buildings. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed.
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