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Bay Springs is a city in and the western county seat of Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,670 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 1,786 at the 2010 census. [4] State highways 15 and 18 intersect at the city. It is part of the Laurel, Mississippi (in Jones County) micropolitan area.
It is located in south Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States, close to the Prentiss County line. It is the northernmost lock and dam on the Tenn-Tom, and was completed at a cost of US$75 million. The lock is the fourth-highest single lift lock in the United States, and raises and lowers barges 84 feet (26 m). The dam forms Bay Springs Lake.
Jasper County is located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.At the 2020 census, the population was 16,367. [1] In 1906, the state legislature established two county courts, one at the first county seat of Paulding in the eastern part of the county and also one at Bay Springs in the west, where the railroad had been constructed. [2]
Bay Springs Lake is a reservoir on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is impounded by the Jamie Whitten Lock and Dam . The lake is approximately 9 miles (14 km) long, between waterway mile markers 412 at the dam, and 421 near the entrance to the divide cut .
A bottling works was founded the next year and the spring water was soon shipped throughout the country. The Stafford Springs Hotel opened in 1899. The shareholders sold the company in 1918, and visitors stopped arriving to the springs during the Great Depression. [2] The hotel continued to be opened yearly from April to September. [3]
Near Columbia: Southwest Region Mason Creek Wildlife Management Area Greene County: 28,000 acres Near Laurel: Southeast Region Muscadine Farms Wildlife Management Area Washington County 3,046 acres Near Greenville: Delta Region Nanih Waiya Wildlife Management Area Neshoba County and Winston County: 7,655 acres Near Philadelphia: East-central Region
The Stafford Mineral Springs and Stafford's Wells Hotel are the site of a historic mineral springs hotel resort property in Montgomery County, Mississippi. The property was built in 1890 by Dr. Thomas Washborn and was visited for its supposed curative properties. [ 2 ]
According to the United States Census Bureau, Heidelberg has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13.3 km 2), of which 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2), or 0.38%, are water. [2] Beaver Creek, a tributary of Bogue Homo, runs through the town. Via Bogue Homo, the town is part of the Leaf River and thence the Pascagoula River watershed.