Shubuta, Mississippi
| Shubuta, Mississippi | |
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 Location of Shubuta, Mississippi |
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| Coordinates: 31°51′39″N 88°42′2″W / 31.86083°N 88.70056°WCoordinates: 31°51′39″N 88°42′2″W / 31.86083°N 88.70056°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Clarke |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km2) |
| • Land | 2.4 sq mi (6.2 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 203 ft (62 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 441 |
| • Density | 183/sq mi (70.6/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 39360 |
| Area code(s) | 601 |
| FIPS code | 28-67520 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0677756 |
Shubuta is a town in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States, on the eastern border of the state. The population was 441 as of the 2010 census, down from 651 at the 2000 census.
Shubuta was incorporated in 1865. It had become a trading post community in the 1830s. In that decade under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the Choctaw people ceded the land to the United States, pursuant to the Indian Removal Act. They were forced to move west of the Mississippi River and their traditional homeland was made available to European Americans for settlement. Shubuta started growing more rapidly in the 1850s after being connected to other communities by the railroad.
At one time the largest town between Meridian, Mississippi, and Mobile, Alabama, Shubuta attracted people from 40 miles (64 km) around to shop at its many mercantile businesses. The first record of the word "Shubuta" appears on Bernard Roman's Map of 1772, a copy of which appears in Riley's History of Mississippi. Riley wrote the name as "Chobuta", which means "smoky water" in the Choctaw language.
The first newspaper in the area was the Mississippi Messenger, established by Judge Charles A. Stovall in 1879. Six houses within Shubuta are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. These are listed in National Register of Historic Places listings in Clarke County, Mississippi, which provides a map link locating them all.
Shubuta residents made history in Albany, New York, where their residential neighborhood was designated an historic district. During the Great Migration in the 1930s a number of Shubuta residents followed Reverend Louis W. Parson to Albany, in the search for industrial jobs and better opportunities. They created a community to the west of the city, building houses along Rapp Road within what was one land parcel purchased by Parson. Now known as the Rapp Road Community Historic District, the area is listed on the NRHP.
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