Swiftown (also known as Ezra), 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

Leflore County Leflore County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,339. The county seat is Greenwood. The county is named for Choctaw leader Greenwood LeFlore, who signed a treaty to cede his pe ...

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, United States. Swiftown is approximately south of Morgan City, north of Belzoni and southeast of Moorhead along

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

. It is part of the

Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area The Greenwood Micropolitan Statistical Area is a micropolitan area in the northwestern Delta region of Mississippi that covers two counties - Leflore and Carroll. As of the 2000 census, the USA had a population of 48,716 (though a July 1, 200 ...

. Swiftown's ZIP code is 38959. Swiftown is located on the former

Columbus and Greenville Railroad 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 (U.S.), Southern Railway operat ...

. A post office operated under the name Ezra from 1886 to 1911 and began operating under the name Swiftown in 1911.

Notable person

* William Cousins (1927-2018),

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judge and

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member, was born in Swiftown.'Judge William Cousins dies; was prosecutor, independent alderman,' Chicago Sun-Times, January 22, 2018

Gallery

File:SwiftownHighwayView.jpg, View of the community from Mississippi Highway 7 File:SwiftownCommunityCenter.jpg, Community Center in Swiftown. File:SwiftownUBChurch.jpg, Swiftown United Baptist Church File:SwiftownPostOffice.jpg, Post Office that once operated in the community (closed in 2011)

References

Unincorporated communities in Leflore County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area {{LefloreCountyMS-geo-stub