Biloxi Mississippi Information-Statistics/Historical

MISSISSIPPI
BILOXI
AREA	48,434 sq miles
CAPITAL	Jackson
FAMOUS DATES	Organized as territory: April 7, 1798 , Entered Union (rank): Dec. 10, 1817 (20), Present constitution adopted: 1890
LOCATION	32.320N, 090.207W
MEAN ELEVATION
HIGHEST POINT	Woodall Mt., 806 ft
LOWEST POINT	Gulf of Mexico, sea level
COUNTIES	82
COASTLINE
GEOGRAPHIC CENTER
STATE FOSSIL	prehistoric whale (1981)
STATE GRASS
STATE REPTILE
STATE ROCK	Petrified Wood
STATE GEMSTONE
STATE FLAG	The committee to design a State Flag was appointed by legislative action February 7, 1894, and provided that the flag reported by the committee should become the official flag. The committee recommended for the flag "one with width two-thirds of its length; with the union square, in width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the ground of the union to be red and a broad blue saltier thereon, bordered with white and emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or five-pointed stars, corresponding with the number of the original States of the Union; the field to be divided into three bars of equal width, the upper one blue, the center one white, and the lower one extending the whole length of the flag.
STATE COLORS
STATE SEAL
STATE SLOGAN	Come And Feel Better About Your Own State
STATE MOTTO	Virtute et armis
STATE SONG	"Go, Mississippi"
STATE TREE	Southern Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora
STATE BIRD	mockingbird (1944)
STATE ANIMAL	White-tailed Deer
STATE FISH	largemouth or black bass (1974)
STATE METAL
STATE NICKNAMES	Magnolia State
STATE FLOWER	Magnolia
BORDERING STATES	Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Tennessee