Prentiss County is a county in Mississippi, United States, in the northeastern hill country near the Alabama and Tennessee state lines. It had a population of 25,008 at the 2020 census and covers 415 square miles (1,070 km2) of land, centred near 34\u00b037\u2032N 88\u00b031\u2032W.<\/p>\n
Booneville is the county seat, and its postal code is 38829. The county has two incorporated cities, two incorporated towns, two census-designated places and several unincorporated communities. It sits in the Central time zone and carries FIPS code 28-117.<\/p>\n
Prentiss County has a small cluster of incorporated municipalities around Booneville, plus census-designated places and rural crossroads communities scattered across the county’s farmland and hills. CDP = census-designated place (unincorporated but tracked separately by the Census Bureau); Unincorp. = an unincorporated community with no formal municipal government.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Booneville<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | 8,458<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Baldwyn<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | 3,166<\/td>\n | 38824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Jumpertown<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 452<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Marietta<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | 222<\/td>\n | 38856<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| New Site<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 972<\/td>\n | 38859<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wheeler<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | 1,264<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Altitude<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Blackland<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Blythes Chapel<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Burton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Bynum<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cairo<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Prentiss<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Frankstown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38859<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gaston<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Geeville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hazeldell<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hills Chapel<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hobo Station<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lake City<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lebanon<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| New Hope<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38859<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Osborne Creek<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pisgah<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38824<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sunflower<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38829<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Thrasher<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 38834<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n Baldwyn straddles the Prentiss–Lee county line, with most of its population and its post office falling in Lee County to the southwest; the ZIP code above covers the whole town regardless of the boundary. The two entries formerly duplicated as “New Site” and “Wheeler” in the old county list are consolidated here to one row each.<\/p>\n ZIP Codes<\/h2>\nMost of the small crossroads communities scattered through the county share the ZIP of their nearest post office town rather than carrying their own code.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nPrentiss County sits in the hill country of the Tennessee–Tombigbee watershed, a landscape of rolling ridges, hardwood bottoms and pasture rather than the flat Delta farmland found farther west in Mississippi. Streams draining the county feed the Tombigbee River system to the east. The county has little standing water — its 415 square miles of land are drained by creeks rather than natural lakes.<\/p>\n |