Panola County, Mississippi

Panola County
Panola County Courthouse (designed by Pritchard & Nickles)[1]
Panola County Courthouse (designed by Pritchard & Nickles)[1]
Map of Mississippi highlighting Panola County
Location within the U.S. state of Mississippi
Map of the United States highlighting Mississippi
Mississippi's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 34°22′N 89°57′W / 34.36°N 89.95°W / 34.36; -89.95
Country United States
State Mississippi
FoundedFebruary 9, 1836
Named forname of Cotton in the Choctaw language
SeatBatesville and Sardis
Largest cityBatesville
Area
 • Total705 sq mi (1,830 km2)
 • Land685 sq mi (1,770 km2)
 • Water20 sq mi (50 km2)  2.8%
Population
 (2020)
 • Total33,208
 • Density47/sq mi (18/km2)
Time zoneUTC−6 (Central)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district2nd
Websitewww.panolacoms.com

Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,208.[2] Its county seats are Sardis and Batesville.[3] 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.

Panola is the anglicization of ponolo, a word meaning "thread" in both old Choctaw and Chickasaw and "cotton" in modern Choctaw.[4] This was one of twelve large counties organized from the Chickasaw Cession of 1832.

  1. ^ Panola County Courthouses
  2. ^ "Census - Geography Profile: Panola County, Mississippi". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  3. ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  4. ^ Wright, Muriel (1930). "Organization of Counties in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations". Chronicles of Oklahoma. Vol. 3. pp. 324–325. Retrieved July 19, 2018.