Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,208. Its county seats are Sardis and Batesville. The county is located just east of the Mississippi Delta in the northern part of the state. It is bisected by the Tallahatchie River flowing to the southwest; travel difficulties because of the river resulted in two county seats being established.
Oxford is the 14th most populous city in Mississippi, and the county seat of Lafayette County, 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Memphis. A college town, the University of Mississippi or "Ole Miss" is adjacent to the city. Founded in 1837, it is named for Oxford, England.
Batesville is a city in Panola County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,523 at the 2020 census, up from 7,463 at the 2010 census.
Como is a town in Panola County, Mississippi, which borders the Mississippi Delta and is in the northern part of the state, known as hill country. The population was 1,279 as of the 2010 census.
Sardis is a town in Panola County, Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 1,748. Sardis is one of two county seats for Panola County; the other is Batesville, on the south side of the Tallahatchie River.
Pope is a village in Panola County, Mississippi. The population was 241 at the 2000 census.
Crenshaw is a town in Panola and Quitman counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 885 at the 2010 census.
The 2007 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday, November 6. Incumbent Haley Barbour was re-elected to serve a four-year term as Governor of Mississippi from January 15, 2008, through January 10, 2012. The Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi is also on the ballot and elected for the same time period. This was the first time that Panola County and Yalobusha County voted Republican for governor since Reconstruction.
The North Panola School District is a public school district based in Sardis, Mississippi (USA).
The South Panola School District is a public school district based in Batesville, Mississippi, US.
A Mississippi Landmark is a building officially nominated by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and approved by each county's chancery clerk. The Mississippi Landmark designation is the highest form of recognition bestowed on properties by the state of Mississippi, and designated properties are protected from changes that may alter the property's historic character. Currently there are 890 designated landmarks in the state. Mississippi Landmarks are spread out between eighty-one of Mississippi's eighty-two counties; only Issaquena County has no such landmarks.
Andrew Johnson was a Swedish–American architect and contractor He designed 61 documented or attributed buildings in Panola County, Mississippi and at least 16 more in North Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Several of his works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
James B. Cook was an English-trained architect who worked in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1800s.
Joe C. Gardner was an American politician.
Mississippi Highway 315 is an 80.4-mile-long (129.4 km) state highway located in northern Mississippi. The highway consists of two segments, one from MS 9W near Paris in Lafayette County to U.S. Route 278 (US 278) and MS 6 in Panola County, and another from US 278/MS 6 in Panola County to US 49/US 61 near Rich in Coahoma County. Along the way, the highway passes over Sardis Dam east of the town of Sardis. Though the two segments of MS 315 are signed north and south, they generally run in an east to westerly direction.
Panola County Courthouse may refer to:
The Panola County Courthouse in Sardis, Mississippi is one of two county courthouses in Panola County, Mississippi; the other is the Panola County Courthouse. Sardis became the second county seat in 1866 and the courthouse was built in 1873. In 1902 a second courthouse was built in Sardis, with L. M. Weathers the architect and M. T. Lewman & Co. the contractor. A third courthouse in Sardis was built by contractor McCain & Associates in 1974 according to a design by Pritchard & Nickles.
Calvin Brooks Vance was an American planter and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate, from Panola County, from 1878 to 1882, from 1908 to 1912, and from 1916 to 1920.
Noah Webster Overstreet (1888–1973) was an American architect in practice in Jackson, Mississippi from 1912 to 1968. He was a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and received accolades for his career. According to the Mississippi Encyclopedia, few architects had as pronounced an impact on Jackson, Mississippi, the state capitol, in the early twentieth century as Overstreet who "worked for over fifty years, producing a large body of commanding institutional and large-scale commercial work."
Terza is an unincorporated community in Panola County, Mississippi. Terza is approximately 6.8 miles (10.9 km) south-southeast of Sardis and approximately 5.8 miles (9.3 km) east-northeast of Batesville on Terza Road southwest of Sardis Lake
