About Starkville, Mississippi

Starkville is a city of 24,360 people and the seat of Oktibbeha County. The county was created on December 23, 1833, out of land the Choctaw Nation had ceded in 1830, and early the next year a hilly spot near its center was chosen for the county seat. Springs of clear water ran there, and the Choctaws had long gathered at one of them, Hickashebeha, or Sweet Gum Grove, to weave baskets.

A sawmill on the Big Black River, southwest of the site, made clapboards, so settlers first called the place Boardtown. The first town lots sold in 1834, and in 1837 the Legislature incorporated the town and named it for General John Stark, who won the battle of Bennington in the Revolution. Dr. J. T. Freeman started the county's first newspaper here in 1847, the Starkville Whig, which later took the name Broad Ax.

“Starkville is already a growing place, with two hotels, five stores, two groceries, an academy with fifty students, two churches, a Presbyterian and Methodist, and four attorneys and two physicians.”
An old chronicler, 1838
  • A jail with no doorsThe first court met in 1834 beneath a large tree. In 1835 the town built a log courthouse and a one-room jail that had neither doors nor windows. A prisoner climbed a ladder to the roof, and guards lowered him inside on a rope through a trap door.
  • A college for farmers in 1878White farmers in the Grange pressed the state for a farm school, and in 1878 Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College was founded at Starkville, paid for with Morrill Act money as the state's first land-grant school. Classes opened in 1880. The state's first agricultural experiment station followed in 1888. In 1932 the school took the name Mississippi State College, and in 1957 it was renamed Mississippi State University. In 1965 it admitted Richard Holmes, its first African American student.
  • Milk Pitcher of the SouthBefore the Civil War, Colonel Montgomery brought cattle from the isle of Jersey, and the area grew into a dairy center. A cooperative creamery opened in 1912, and in 1926 the Borden Condensery opened in Starkville, the first condensery in the southern U.S. By the 1920s the county led Mississippi in dairy production.
  • The Cotton District since 1969Developer Dan Camp began the Cotton District in 1969, between downtown and the campus, as North America's first New Urbanist neighborhood. He built, owned and managed much of it, mixing Greek Revival with Classical or Victorian styles on compact, walkable streets. Each year it hosts the Starkville Derby, billed as the world's largest charity wiener dog race.

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Names on the Starkville 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 landmarks44

  • Starkville City Hall
  • Clayton Village
  • Bingham Estates
  • McKee Park
  • Academy Park
  • Avondale
  • Cedar Point
  • Cherokee Heights
  • College View
  • College Vista
  • Colonial Hills
  • Conner Heights
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  • Country Hills
  • Country Side Estates
  • Deerfield
  • Didlake
  • Fairfield Commons
  • Glendale
  • Green Oaks
  • Greenbriar
  • Hancock Circle
  • Highland Estates
  • Landers
  • Magnolia Heights
  • Nashdale
  • Northgate
  • Northwood Hills
  • Pecan Acres
  • Pleasant Acres
  • Pressly Place
  • Rolling Hills
  • Rosedale
  • Sheely Hills
  • Sherwood Forest
  • Southdale
  • Stonegate
  • Tanglewood
  • Timbercove
  • University Heights
  • West End
  • Westwood
  • Whispering Pines
  • Wood Dale
  • Wood Manor

Streets and roads132

  • Highway 12 West
  • North Jackson Street
  • Highway 182 West
  • Old Highway 82 West
  • Old Highway 82
  • Highway 389
  • Abernathy Drive
  • Reed Road
  • South Montgomery Street
  • Old Highway 25 South
  • Louisville Street
  • Old West Point Road
  • Lynn Lane
  • Sudduth Road
  • Old Highway 12
  • Industrial Park Road
  • Pat Station Road
  • Rockhill Road
  • Bluefield Road
  • Sand Road
  • Stark Road
  • Greensboro Street
  • Hospital Road
  • West Garrard Road
  • Lewis Lane
  • East Garrard Road
  • Stowood Road
  • Turnberry Lane
  • Butler Road
  • Greta Lane
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  • Research Boulevard
  • Greenbriar Street
  • Plum Road
  • Chestnut Drive
  • Sycamore Street
  • Boyd Road
  • Airport Road
  • Cornerstone Boulevard
  • Mallory Lane
  • Hogan Street
  • Banyan Road
  • Huntington Drive
  • Pinoak Drive
  • Shadowood Lane
  • Pollard Road
  • Miley Drive
  • Maple Drive
  • Carver Drive
  • Helen Circle
  • Babylon Road
  • Sherwood Road
  • Lee Boulevard
  • Fairway Drive
  • Green Street
  • Belmont Drive
  • Yeates Street
  • Curry Street
  • Old Highway 82 East
  • Highway 12 East
  • Martin Luther King Junior Drive East
  • Bully Boulevard
  • Highway 182 East
  • Collier Road
  • Yellow Jacket Drive
  • Cedar Creek Lane
  • Critz Street
  • Lakeside Road
  • South Lafayette Street
  • Bridle Path
  • Brook Avenue
  • McKee Avenue
  • Gregory Avenue
  • Eutaw Street
  • Nottingham Road
  • Park Circle
  • Aztec Street
  • Country Club Road
  • Biggs Road
  • Oakmont Road
  • Pilcher Street
  • Lincoln Green
  • Pinecrest Road
  • Augusta Lane
  • Briarwick Drive
  • Geechie Road
  • West Wood Street
  • Treasure Lane
  • Trotter Road
  • West Bound Street
  • Day Lily Drive
  • Cedar Lane
  • Azalea Lane
  • Hull Road
  • East Bound Street
  • Setter Street
  • Aspen Road
  • Spring Hill Drive
  • Ryan Avenue
  • Canterbury Road
  • Russell Street
  • Seville Place
  • East Lee Boulevard
  • Linden Circle
  • Mockingbird Lane
  • Gardenia Drive
  • Fire Station Road
  • Vine Street
  • Pecan Drive
  • Wilkins Road
  • Avenue of Patriots Street
  • Sand Creek Road
  • Redbud Drive
  • Willow Road
  • Ruth Road
  • Guest Drive
  • Boyd Drive
  • Old Mayhew Road
  • Whitfield Street
  • Spruill Industrial Park Road
  • Barnett Drive
  • Catherine Street
  • Oktibbeha Drive
  • King Richard Road
  • Tomlinson Drive
  • Lakes Boulevard
  • Central Avenue
  • Grand Ridge Road
  • Camelia Place
  • Dunlap Street
  • Forest Hill Drive
  • Fannie Dale Road
  • Reed Court

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