What is the population of Shubuta, Mississippi?

Shubuta has a population of approximately 553 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Shubuta, Mississippi located?

Shubuta is located in Mississippi, United States, at approximate coordinates 31.8620°, -88.7021°.

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Shubuta

Total population

553

Elevation62 m

Land area6.25 km²

Weather87°F · Partly Sunny

Coordinates31.86°, -88.70°

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City facts

Elevation

62 m

Area

6.25 km²

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Overview

Shubuta is a town in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States, which is located on the eastern border of the state. As of the 2020 census, Shubuta had a population of 406. Developed around an early 19th-century trading post on the Chickasawhay River, it was built near a Choctaw town. Shubuta is a Choctaw word meaning "smokey water".

History & geography

History

Located along the Chickasawhay River, the small town of Shubuta was incorporated in 1865. It had started in the 1830s as a trading post community, located near the Choctaw village of Yowani. During the period of Indian Removal, under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Choctaw people ceded most of their lands to the United States. Under the Indian Removal Act, they were given land in exchange in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), and most of the people were forced to relocate west of the Mississippi River. Their traditional homelands in the Southeast were sold or made available by lotteries to European Americans for settlement. The first record of the word "Shubuta" appears on Bernard Roman's "Map of 1772", a copy of which appears in Riley's History of Mississippi. The name was spelled as "Chobuta", which means "smoky water" in the Choctaw language. It became a market town for an area developed for cotton plantations, which depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Cotton was shipped downriver from Shubuta to Mobile, Alabama, and then to other major ports. The town started growing more rapidly in the 1850s after being connected to other communities by the railroad. At one time the largest town between Meridian, Mississippi, and Mobile, Shubuta attracted people from around to shop at its many mercantile businesses. The first newspaper in the area was the Mississippi Messenger, established in 1879 by Judge Charles A. Stovall. Six houses within Shubuta are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These are listed in National Register of Historic Places listings in Clarke County, Mississippi, which provides a map link locating them all. East of the town is a bridge over the river; it is known as the "Hanging Bridge". It was the site of the…

Geography

Shubuta is located near the southern border of Clarke County, on the west side of the Chickasawhay River. U.S. Route 45 bypasses the town on the west, leading north to Quitman, the county seat, and south to Waynesboro. Mississippi Highway 145, which leads through the center of Shubuta, follows the old alignment of US 45. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.

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