Baldwyn

History

Located five miles north of Guntown, the main street of Baldwyn runs along the county line of Lee and Prentiss counties. It has the unusual distinction of having been incorporated in four counties. Founded on November 20, 1860, it was incorporated by an act of the Legislature in Tishomingo and Itawamba counties on April 1, 1861. Lee county was formed from parts of Itawamba and Pontotoc on October 26, 1866, while Tishomingo was divided into Alcorn, Prentiss, and Tishomingo on April 15, 1870. Baldwyn is an outgrowth of the village of Carrollville: when the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was being built during the years of 1848 to 1861, it missed Carrollville by one and one-half miles and the citizens moved to the new town of Baldwyn, which was named for the civil engineer who surveyed the road through the town. Tishomingo, chief of the Chickasaw nation, lived at Carrollville but died near Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1839 of smallpox while being moved west with his tribe.

Geography

In the 2000 census, 1,892 of the city's 3,321 residents (57.0%) lived in Prentiss county and 1,429 (43.0%) in Lee county. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and (0.43%) is water.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• SALTILLO HIGH SCHOOL
  High · SALTILLO · 955 students · 17.1:1 ratio
• SALTILLO PRIMARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · SALTILLO · 700 students · 11.9:1 ratio
• GUNTOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · GUNTOWN · 696 students · 13.9:1 ratio
• SALTILLO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · SALTILLO · 675 students · 13.5:1 ratio
• BALDWYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · BALDWYN · 308 students · 12.8:1 ratio