Michigan City, formerly known as Davis Mills, is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

Benton County, Mississippi Benton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,729. Its county seat is Ashland. It is locally believed that residents convinced the post-Civil War Reconstruction government t ...

, United States. Although unincorporated, Michigan City has a post office, with the ZIP code of 38647.

Geography

DAVIS' MILL BATTLE SITE, BENTON COUNTY, MS

It is located along

Mississippi Highway 7 Mississippi Highway 7 (MS 7) runs generally north–south from the Tennessee state line in Benton County to Belzoni, Mississippi. It travels approximately , serving Humphreys, Leflore, Carroll, Grenada, Yalobusha, Lafayette, Marshal ...

in north central Benton County, just south of the

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state line, approximately three miles north of U. S. Route 72. Mississippi Highway 702 is called Main Street in Michigan City. The nearly abandoned

Mississippi Central Railroad Mississippi Central Railroad (reporting mark MSCI) is a short line railroad operating over 51 miles from Oxford, Mississippi, to Grand Junction, Tennessee, owned by Pioneer Railcorp. The railroad's principal commodities are wood products and ...

, which is used only rarely for freight traffic, runs through Michigan City.

History

The majority of the first settlers being natives of the state of

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caused the name to be selected. Michigan City was formerly home to a flour mill and lumber mill. A post office operated under the name Davis Mills from 1871 to 1875 and first began operation under the name Michigan City in 1875. Davis' Mills Battle Site, a Civil War battlefield listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

, is located in Michigan City.

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ZIP code demographic data
Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{BentonCountyMS-geo-stub