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Durant
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city in Holmes County, Mississippi
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Holmes
- Mayor
- John Haynes
- Total
- 2.26 sq mi (5.86 km )
- Land
- 2.24 sq mi (5.80 km )
- Water
- 0.023 sq mi (0.06 km )
- Elevation
- 259 ft (79 m)
- Density
- 996.1/sq mi (384.59/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 28-20500
- Gnis feature id
- 0669521
- Website
- https://www.cityofdurantms.com/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Durant is a city near the central eastern border of Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, and Big Black River. The town was founded in 1858 as a station on the Mississippi Central Railroad, later part of the Illinois Central. Durant was named for Louis Durant, a Choctaw chief who had lived on this site before the United States undertook Indian Removal in the 1830s, forcing him and most of the Choctaw to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
As of the 2020 census, Durant had a population of 2,231.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Durant” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.