Natchez is the only city and county seat of Adams County,
Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 15,792 (as of the
2010 census). Located on the Mississippi River some 90 miles (140 km)
southwest of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, and 85 miles (137 km)
north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it is the 25th-largest city in the state. It
is named for the Natchez tribe of Native Americans whose territory it was. They
resisted the Europeans in the eighteenth century.
Established by French colonists in 1716, Natchez is one of the oldest and
most important European settlements in
