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Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
Egypt, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 33°53′54″N 88°43′47″W / 33.89833°N 88.72972°W / 33.89833; -88.72972
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyChickasaw
Elevation305 ft (93 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code662
GNIS feature ID669700

Egypt, also known as Pikeville, is an unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States. Egypt is 7 miles (11 km) south of Okolona.

Egypt is located on the former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and was home to a depot. Egypt also had two churches, an academy, a broom factory, a grist mill, and a Munger System cotton gin.

A post office operated under the name Pikeville from 1844 to 1859 and under the name Egypt from 1859 to 1979.

The Battle of Egypt Station was fought on December 28, 1864, when Brigadier General Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry division defeated an outnumbered Confederate force led by Samuel J. Gholson and Franklin Gardner. The Union raiders were intent on damaging the railroad before heading southwest to Vicksburg.

This community was devastated by EF-3 tornadoes on April 27, 2011.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Egypt, Chickasaw County, Mississippi
  2. Howe, Tony. "Egypt, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
  3. Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 671.
  4. "Chickasaw County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
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