Baird is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located in
Sunflower County, Mississippi
Sunflower County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 25,971. Its largest city and county seat is Indianola, Mississippi, Indianola.
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, United States.
Baird is approximately west of
Moorhead and southeast of
Indianola.
The settlement was named for John Rupert Baird, the former owner of the town site.
In the early 1900s, a station of the
Southern Railway was located in Baird.
The track, originally crossing the state from Columbus to Greenville, is currently owned and operated by the
Columbus and Greenville Railway
There have been two uses of Columbus and Greenville Railway, both for the same rail line.
Original Columbus and Greenville
The first Columbus and Greenville Railway was formed by the sale of the Southern Railway operated Southern Railway in M ...
, and line is now truncated as far as Greenwood.
Gallery
File:BairdMississippiHighwaySign.JPG, Sign to Baird
References
Unincorporated communities in Sunflower County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
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