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Sparta was once home to two churches and a school. [2] A post office operated under the name Sparta from 1850 to 1905. [3]Company H of the 13th Mississippi Infantry (known as "The Spartan Band") was enlisted at Sparta on March 23, 1861. [4]
Chickasaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,106. [1] Its county seats are Houston and Okolona. [2] The county is named for the Chickasaw people, who lived in this area for hundreds of years.
The county governing body, known as the Board of Supervisors, is located under the judicial branch of state government as established in the 1817 Mississippi Constitution. [3] The 1868 Constitution mandated five-member Board of Supervisors, an evolution of the five-member board of police created in the 1832 Constitution . [ 2 ]
The principal area of Sparta was in fact downtown Covington, Georgia. Rural scenes were filmed in a wide surrounding area, in the Georgia counties of Newton (where Covington is located), Rockdale, Walton, Morgan, and Jasper. Decatur in Dekalb County was used as a stand-in for an episode as the Mississippi Capital city of Jackson, and Atlanta ...
Sunnydale is located on a "Hellmouth"; a portal "between this reality and the next", and convergence point of mystical energies. [5] Sparta, Mississippi In the Heat of the Night: CBS, NBC Sparta is a fictional town in Mississippi. It was filmed in Hammond, Indiana and also Covington, Georgia. Mystic Falls The Vampire Diaries: CW
Mississippi Highway 47 (MS 47) is a 23.048-mile-long (37.092 km) state highway located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The route starts at MS 50 west of West Point in Clay County . The road then travels northwest through small communities in Clay and Chickasaw counties, and it intersects MS 8 in Trebloc , Chickasaw County.
An alternate name for the Duckport Landing was Sparta or Sparta Landing. [3] As of 1890 two placenames were about 300 yards (270 m) apart on the Mississippi River , with Sparta preferred in high water and Duckport preferred in low.
Houston is located west of the center of Chickasaw County. Mississippi Highway 8 passes through the city, leading east 29 miles (47 km) to Aberdeen and west 18 miles (29 km) to Calhoun City . Mississippi Highway 15 bypasses the city to the west, crossing Highway 8 within a western extension of the city limits.