About Houston, Mississippi

Houston is a city of 3,797 people in north-central Mississippi, and it shares the job of Chickasaw County seat with Okolona. The county was created on February 9, 1836, and Judge Joel Pinson offered to give land for its seat. His offer was accepted on July 8, 1836, and he named the new town for his childhood friend Sam Houston, the general who led Texas in its war for independence.

Work on a brick courthouse on the town square and a jail a block to the north started that same year. Houston was incorporated on May 9, 1837, a month ahead of the Texas city that shares its name, which was incorporated on June 5, 1837, and it got its first post office that December. After the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was built through the county in 1859, most of the county's trade moved from Houston to Okolona. Poor roads made the trip to court hard, so in 1866 the state gave Okolona a second court district while Houston kept its own, leaving the county with two seats.

  • Records burned in 1863On April 21, 1863, during the Civil War, county officers loaded Chickasaw County's records into a wagon to carry them out of Houston for safekeeping. A squad of Union soldiers stopped them and set the papers on fire, and nearly all of the county's records were lost.
  • Mississippi's first Carnegie libraryL. B. Reid, the local school superintendent, asked Andrew Carnegie for a public library, and Carnegie's matching program approved the request. The library built in Houston in 1909 was the first Carnegie library in the state, and the Houston Carnegie Library joined the National Register in 1978.
  • Growing fast by 1906A 1906 county history found Houston booming. Sawmills, planing mills, handle factories, stave mills, a spoke factory, a cotton compress and a cotton gin kept people working, and the town ran its own electric lights and water works.
  • Two banks and a newspaperThe Bank of Houston and a branch of the Okolona Banking Co. opened in the fall of 1903, and H. Richard Smith started the weekly Houston Post in 1904. From 1903 to 1906, assessed property value in the town rose from $93,000 to $400,000.
  • A solar car record in 2015Houston High School's solar race team won the Open Division of the national Solar Car Challenge 14 years running and took its 15th straight title in 2018. In October 2015 its car, Sundancer, won the Adventure Class at Australia's World Solar Challenge, the first high school car to finish and win it, and set a race record of 252 miles in one day. In 2017 Sundancer appeared in the IMAX film Dream Big and at the Smithsonian.

Find your street

Names on the Houston map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • Houston City Hall

Streets and roads106

  • Highway 8 West
  • Highway 389
  • West Point Road
  • South Jackson Street
  • Highway 8 East
  • East Madison Street
  • West Madison Street
  • Houston Bypass
  • Airport Road
  • West Church Street
  • South Starkville Street
  • North Castle Street
  • Industrial Drive
  • Highland Drive
  • Pittsboro Street
  • North Pontotoc Street
  • North Jackson Street
  • North Jefferson Street
  • Belfontaine Street
  • Woodland Circle
  • Dulaney Street
  • Aberdeen Road
  • Stacie Street
  • Okolona Cutoff Road
  • Martin Drive
  • Franklin Drive
  • Sixth Street
  • Daniel Boone Street
  • Third Street
  • Lee Horn Street
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  • Country Club Road
  • Duncan Drive
  • First Avenue
  • Third Avenue
  • Jamison Street
  • Umberson Road
  • Second Avenue
  • Hall Street
  • Nabors Circle
  • Pearl Street
  • First Street
  • Chestnut Lane
  • Scott Street
  • Kyle Drive
  • Oak Lane Circle
  • Gladney Drive
  • Fourth Avenue
  • Baird Street
  • Parish Street
  • East Sixth Avenue
  • Park Street
  • Simpson Hill Drive
  • Griffin Street
  • Carol Drive
  • Wofford Drive
  • Clint Street
  • Tindall Circle
  • Hillcrest Drive
  • Ware Drive
  • Reece Cv
  • Hill Avenue
  • Berry Street
  • Mill Drive
  • Judy Street
  • Malcomb Street
  • Moffatt Street
  • Evans Drive
  • Mabry Drive
  • McWhorter Street
  • East Church Street
  • East Depot Street
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Shintacha Lane
  • Meadow Lane
  • Thomas Street
  • West Harrington Street
  • Angie Street
  • Chenault Street
  • Collins Drive
  • South Castle Street
  • Hill Street
  • Freeman Street
  • King Cv
  • Terrace Road
  • West Depot Street
  • Morris Circle
  • Myatt Street
  • South Street
  • Detour Road
  • North Hall Street
  • Armstrong Drive
  • Parker Avenue
  • Memory Drive
  • Talitha Street
  • Davis Street
  • Oak Avenue
  • Lowry Street
  • Cottonwood Drive
  • Dovie Drive
  • Merry Drive
  • Warnick Drive
  • Airport Street
  • Crawford Avenue
  • Cathy Street
  • Seay Drive
  • Farr Cv

Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.

The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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