About West Point, Mississippi

West Point is a city of 10,105 people and the seat of Clay County, in northeastern Mississippi. The town began as a small hamlet about half a mile west of where it stands today, and a post office opened there on September 22, 1846. When the Mobile and Ohio Railroad laid its tracks through the area a few years before the Civil War, the town's business moved over to the line, and West Point was incorporated on November 20, 1858.

In May 1871 the state carved a new county out of Chickasaw, Lowndes, Monroe and Oktibbeha counties and named it Colfax, for Schuyler Colfax, vice president under Ulysses S. Grant. West Point was chosen as its seat. After Reconstruction ended and Democrats returned to power, the county was renamed for Henry Clay, and West Point stayed the county seat. Three railroads met here, the Illinois Central, the Mobile and Ohio and the Southern, and by 1900 the town had grown to 4,400 people.

  • Mississippi's first airportPayne Field opened at West Point in 1916 as a training ground for American troops in World War I, and it was Mississippi's first airport. It ran as an advanced aviation school from May 1918 to March 1920, and about 1,500 pilots learned to fly there.
  • Colleges for womenWest Point became a center of learning for women in eastern Mississippi. The Southern Women's College moved here from Oxford in 1894, and the next year Mary Holmes College opened in town as a Presbyterian school for African American women. The Mary Holmes Junior College Historic District joined the National Register in 1991.
  • Bryan Foods since 1936John H. Bryan Sr. and W. B. Bryan started Bryan Foods in West Point in 1936, making meat products the company sold as the Flavor of the South. Sara Lee Corporation bought the business in 1968, and it kept working in West Point until March 2007.
  • Howlin' Wolf's home countyChester Burnett, the blues musician known as Howlin' Wolf, was born in 1910 at White Station, a Clay County community. West Point is home to the Howlin' Wolf Blues Museum. Every Labor Day weekend a blues festival in his name starts things off on Friday evening, and the Prairie Arts Festival fills Saturday with crafts, music, children's rides, a 5K race and a car show.
  • First woman chief justiceLenore Prather was born in West Point in 1931 and started her work as a judge here in 1965. She rose to become chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, the first woman ever to hold that seat.

Find your street

Names on the West Point 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 landmarks4

  • West Point City Hall
  • Oakridge Estates
  • Pine Acres
  • Northgate

Streets and roads154

  • East Main Street
  • Highway 45 North
  • Highway 45 South
  • North Division Street
  • Tva Road
  • South Division Street
  • Wyman Drive
  • Lone Oak Road
  • South Industrial Access Road
  • Old White Road South
  • Lone Oak Drive
  • West City Limits Road
  • North Eshman Avenue
  • East Church Hill Road
  • Old Aberdeen Road
  • Crepe Myrtle Loop
  • Short Street
  • Dunlap Road
  • West Churchill Road
  • Waverly Drive
  • Old Tibbee Road
  • Section Road
  • South Eshman Avenue
  • Industrial Access Road
  • Old Waverly Road
  • Deerfield Circle
  • Whitetail Circle
  • East Brame Avenue
  • East Broad Street
  • East Morrow Street
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  • Kitty Dill Memorial Parkway
  • Lone Oak Park Road
  • Sixth Street
  • East Westbrook Street
  • Fifth Street
  • East Half Mile Street
  • Waverly Road
  • Mac Cox Road
  • Griffin Street
  • Truman Creek Road
  • Hamlin Road
  • Falcon Street
  • Hillside Drive
  • Grove Street
  • Lone Oak Circle
  • Section Circle
  • McClellan Street
  • Lone Oak Pk
  • Calhoun Street
  • McCord Street
  • Hickory Drive
  • Eshman Avenue
  • Cromwell Street
  • Mayhew Street
  • North Lone Oak Road
  • Curtis Orman Road
  • Little Street
  • West Half Mile Street
  • Bugg Street
  • East Street
  • Miller Avenue
  • Court Street
  • Critz Street
  • Mapleview Road
  • Center Street
  • Airport Road
  • Walter Wells Road
  • Seitz Street
  • Progress Street
  • Washington Street
  • Crowell Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Cottrell Street
  • High Street
  • Fawn Drive
  • Lewellen Street
  • Barksdale Drive
  • Stonewall Street
  • Smith Street
  • Rosedale
  • Avalon Street
  • Rogers Road
  • Dix Street
  • Tedford Drive
  • Windale Drive
  • Bayless Drive
  • Bulldog Street
  • Oak Drive
  • Carver Street
  • Mead Street
  • Mill Street
  • West Main Street
  • Old White Road
  • Hillcrest Road
  • Bent Tree Drive
  • Babs Drive
  • Commerce Street
  • Clark Circle
  • Guyton Circle
  • Medical Center Circle
  • Meadowhill Road
  • Redwine Circle
  • Carl Miller Road
  • William Huffman Road
  • McClenton Road
  • Martin Luther King Drive
  • College Street
  • Millers Brothers Road
  • Colony Drive
  • Kennedy Drive
  • Wood Street
  • Prescott Street
  • Joe Bryant Road
  • Tubb Avenue
  • Briggs Road
  • Division Drive
  • Moore Avenue
  • Vine Street
  • Lee Street
  • Proctor Drive
  • Lagoon Road
  • Myers Circle
  • Ivy Lane
  • Medical Center Drive
  • Oak Ridge Road
  • Hackberry Road
  • Converse Drive
  • Oak Ridge Drive
  • West Loop Drive
  • Illinois Street
  • Lowry Circle
  • Briarwood Drive
  • Walnut Road
  • Rae Street
  • Trulove Road
  • Duncan Street
  • Cherry Lane
  • Mose Street
  • West Broad Street
  • Pine Acres Circle
  • Colbert Drive
  • Woodbine Street
  • Oak Ridge Loop
  • Landfill Road
  • Pecan Lane
  • Hill Street
  • North Jackson Street
  • East Jones Street
  • Oak Trail Road
  • Rich Street
  • East Kilburn Street
  • Jones Street
  • Railroad Road
  • Pine Street

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