Baird, Mississippi

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Baird, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Baird, Mississippi
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Baird, Mississippi
Coordinates: 33°25′30″N90°30′00″W / 33.42500°N 90.50000°W / 33.42500; -90.50000
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Sunflower
Elevation
118 ft (36 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
38751
Area code 662
GNIS feature ID711032 [1]

Baird is an unincorporated community located in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.

Baird is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Moorhead and 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Indianola.

The settlement was named for John Rupert Baird, the former owner of the town site. [2]

In the early 1900s, a station of the Southern Railway was located in Baird. [2] The track, originally crossing the state from Columbus to Greenville, is currently owned and operated by the Columbus and Greenville Railway, and line is now truncated as far as Greenwood. [3]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Baird, Mississippi
  2. 1 2 Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 179.
  3. ↑ "Columbus and Greenville Railway – A Genesee & Wyoming Company".


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