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Pontotoc is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Mississippi, located to the west of the larger city of Tupelo. The population was 5,640 at the 2020 census. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word that means, “Land of the Hanging Grapes.”
Pontotoc County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,184. [1] Its county seat is Pontotoc. [2] It was created on February 9, 1836, from lands ceded to the United States under the Chickasaw Cession. Pontotoc is a Chickasaw word meaning "land of hanging grapes".
Woodall Mountain, the highest natural point in Mississippi, is located in the region. Dramatic poverty [clarification needed] continued in the region until the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933. Growth in the manufacturing sector during the 1950s and 1960s provided an economic boom to the region, and today North ...
Chickasaw Nation Territory in 1832. The remaining Mississippi lands ceded in the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek. The Treaty of Pontotoc Creek was a treaty signed on October 20, 1832 by representatives of the United States and the Chiefs of the Chickasaw Nation assembled at the National Council House on Pontotoc Creek in Pontotoc, Mississippi.
Location of Pontotoc County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
Randolph is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Randolph is located along Mississippi Highway 9. It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census. [3]
Mississippi Highway 6 (MS 6) runs east–west from MS 161 in Lyon, east to MS 25 near Amory. It travels approximately 139 miles (224 km), serving Coahoma , Quitman , Panola , Lafayette , Pontotoc , Lee , and Monroe Counties .
MS 41 is located in Monroe, Chickasaw, and Pontotoc counties. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The route is legally defined in Mississippi Code § 65-3-3, [ 6 ] and all of it is maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), as part of the Mississippi State Highway System .