Rawls Springs 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 ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) located in
Forrest County,
Mississippi
Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...
, United States. As of the
2020 census it had a population of 1,202.
Rawls Springs is approximately northwest of
Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County (where it is the county seat and most populous city) and extending west into Lamar County. The city population was 48,730 in 2020, making it the 5th m ...
near
U.S. Route 49 and a part of the
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Rawls Springs is located on the former
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad.
A post office operated under the name Rawles Springs from 1905 to 1927.
Demographics
As of the
2020 United States census, there were 1,202 people, 686 households, and 505 families residing in the CDP.
Notable person
*
Mercy Baby, blues musician
References
Census-designated places in Mississippi
Census-designated places in Forrest County, Mississippi
Hattiesburg metropolitan area
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