Black Belt (Ala. and Miss.)

Work cat.: Arnold, F. Economic geography of the Black Belt of Alabama, 1928.
GNIS, Sept. 14, 2007 (Black Belt; areas in Ala.; areas in Miss.)
Columbia gazetteer of the world online, Sept. 21, 2007: Black Belt entry (Black Belt; belt; several areas in Miss. and Ala. distinguished by black soil) Alabama entry (Black Belt; formerly a major cotton-growing region; now a cattle- and poulty-raising center)
Britannica online, Sept. 21, 2007: Black Belt (physical region in Alabama and Mississippi, U.S., so named for its soil;The Black Belt is a fertile plain, generally 25-30 miles (40-50 km) wide and stretching approximately 300 miles (480 km) across central Alabama and northeastern Mississippi; though strictly the name of a physical region, the term Black Belt has been borrowed by social scientists to denote those areas of the South where the plantation system predominated before the Civil War)
Merriam-webster dict. online, Sept. 21, 2007 (fertile agricultural region: a region in the southern United States, stretching from Georgia across Alabama and Mississippi, with extremely fertile dark soil)

Here are entered works on a crescent-shaped region of fertile dark soil that extends through central Alabama and northeastern Mississippi.