Billups, Mississippi

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Billups, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Billups
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Billups
Billups (the United States)
Coordinates: 33°25′50″N88°35′06″W / 33.43056°N 88.58500°W / 33.43056; -88.58500
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Lowndes
Elevation
226 ft (69 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 662
GNIS feature ID691704 [1]

Billups is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Billups is located west of Columbus and just south of Golden Triangle Regional Airport. According to the United States Geological Survey, variant names are Billups Gate and Billups Station. [1]

Billups is the site of the former 2,000 acre plantation of Colonel Thomas C. Billups. [2]

Billups was a flag stop on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. [3] The first oil well in Lowndes County was drilled in Billups in 1921 and gravel and logs were shipped from the community. [4]

A post office operated under the name Billups from 1901 to 1906. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Billups
  2. ↑ Moore, John Hebron (1988). The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. p. 121. ISBN   0-8071-1382-4.
  3. ↑ Rawick, George P. (1977). The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Company. p. 2124. ISBN   9780837197562.
  4. ↑ "Phase I Historic Resources Survey Along Luxapalila Creek, And At The Remains Of A Historic Mill (22L0948), Lowndes County, Mississippi" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Lowndes County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 10, 2023.


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