Scott County is a county in Mississippi, United States, about 40 miles east of Jackson along Interstate 20, in the east-central part of the state. It had a population of 27,990 at the 2020 census and covers 610 square miles (1,600 km2) centred near 32°24′N 89°33′W.<\/p>\n
Forest is the county seat; its postal code is 39074. The county has two cities (Forest and Morton), two towns (Lake and Sebastopol), two census-designated places (Harperville and Hillsboro), and about three dozen smaller unincorporated communities. Scott County is in the Central time zone; its FIPS code is 28123.<\/p>\n
Scott County has four incorporated municipalities — two cities and two towns — plus two census-designated places (CDPs) and a wide scatter of unincorporated rural communities and crossroads. A CDP is a statistically defined settlement with no municipal government of its own; Unincorp. marks a community, church-and-store crossroads, or old mill settlement that was never incorporated. Most of the names below have no population or ZIP figures of their own because the Census Bureau and U.S. Postal Service don’t track them separately from the surrounding rural district.<\/p>\n
| Place<\/th>\n | Type<\/th>\n | Pop.<\/th>\n | ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest<\/td>\n | City · seat<\/td>\n | 5,428<\/td>\n | 39074<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Morton<\/td>\n | City<\/td>\n | 3,395<\/td>\n | 39117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lake<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 39092<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sebastopol<\/td>\n | Town<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 39359<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Harperville<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 39080<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hillsboro<\/td>\n | CDP<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 39087<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ball Hill<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Beach<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Branch<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Buckleytown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cash<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Clarkburg<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Clifton<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Contrell<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Cooperville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Damascus<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Dennis Settlement<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Donohoe<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| East Hillsboro<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Fikestown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Forkville<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Frogtown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Gum Spring<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hays<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Homewood<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Horseshoe<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Hunter Town<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Independence<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kalem<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Kracker Station<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Lillian<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Little Italy<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Ludlow<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 39098<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Midway<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Muskegon<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Norris<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Otho<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Piketown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Pulaski<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | 39152<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Raworth<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Singleton Settlement<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Stage<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Steele<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Sun<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Usrytown<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| Wolf<\/td>\n | Unincorp.<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n | —<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\nZIP Codes<\/h2>\nCommunities without their own listing above, such as Forkville, Kalem, Muskegon, and Norris, receive mail through the Forest or Morton post office.<\/p>\n Geography<\/h2>\nScott County sits in the piney, gently rolling uplands of east-central Mississippi, on the eastern edge of the Jackson Prairie belt. Land covers 609 of the county’s 610 square miles; the remaining 1.2 square miles is water, mostly farm ponds and small creek impoundments feeding the Pearl and Leaf river systems. The Bienville National Forest extends into the county’s southern and eastern reaches, mixing longleaf and loblolly pine stands with hardwood bottoms along Tallahala and Turkey creeks.<\/p>\n Scott County borders Leake County<\/a> to the north, Newton County<\/a> to the east, Smith County to the south, Rankin County<\/a> to the west, and Madison County<\/a> to the northwest.<\/p>\n Scott County’s population was 27,990 at the 2020 census, a density of about 46 people per square mile. Forest, the county seat, and Morton are its two largest communities, together home to roughly 8,800 residents — close to a third of the county. Median household income here runs below the Mississippi median of $54,203, reflecting the county’s dependence on lower-wage agricultural and food-processing work rather than the state-government and healthcare jobs concentrated in the Jackson metro core to the west.<\/p>\n Poultry processing anchors Scott County’s economy; Morton is home to a major Koch Foods chicken plant, one of the larger private employers in the county, and smaller growers and hatcheries dot the surrounding farmland. Timber harvested from the Bienville National Forest and privately held pine tracts supports a secondary logging and sawmill trade. Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway 80 draw warehousing and trucking activity through Forest and Morton, and the Scott County school district and county government are major public-sector employers based in Forest. The Scott County Fair, held in Forest each fall, remains the county’s largest annual community gathering.<\/p>\n Scott County was organized in 1833 from Choctaw cession lands opened after the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, and named for Abram M. Scott, who served as Mississippi’s governor from 1832 until his death in office in 1833. Nine lynchings of Black residents are documented in the county between 1877 and 1950, part of the broader pattern of racial violence chronicled across Mississippi in that era. On August 7, 2019, federal immigration agents carried out coordinated raids at seven Mississippi poultry plants, including facilities in Morton and Sebastopol, arresting roughly 680 workers in what was, at the time, the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in U.S. history.<\/p>\n Interstate 20 and U.S. Highway 80 cross Scott County east–west, and Mississippi Highway 13 runs north–south through Forest, giving most of the county a direct road link to Jackson.<\/p>\n The nearest commercial airport is Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport, about 35 miles west of Forest.<\/p>\n Where is Scott County, Mississippi?<\/strong> What is the population of Scott County?<\/strong> How big is Scott County?<\/strong> What is the county seat of Scott County?<\/strong> How many towns are in Scott County?<\/strong> What ZIP codes are in Scott County?<\/strong> |