Attala County, Mississippi
…population was 17,889. Its county seat is Kosciusko. Attala County is named for Atala, a fictional Native American heroine from an early-19th-century novel of the same name by François-René de Chateaubriand. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 737 square miles (1,910 km2), of which 735 square…