South
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis

Prentiss

Prentiss is a town and the county seat of , , United States. The population was 1,081 at the 2010 census, down from 1,158 at the 2000 census.
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  • Type: Village with 1,050 residents
  • Description: town and county seat of Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi, United States
  • Also known as: “Blountville”, “Prentiss (Mississippi)”, “Prentiss, Mississippi”, and “Prentiss, MS”
  • Postal code: 39474

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jefferson Davis County Courthouse and Prentiss High School.

Courthouse
Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.
is a historic county courthouse built in 1907 in Prentiss, Mississippi, the county seat of Jefferson Davis County. The courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1994.

School
was a high school located in Prentiss, Mississippi, United States. It was a part of the Jefferson Davis County School District. It ceased operations at the end of the 2016–17 school year.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Carson.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , United States. is located on Mississippi Highway 42, 6 miles southeast of Prentiss. is situated 6 miles southeast of Prentiss.

Prentiss

Latitude
31.5985° or 31° 35′ 55″ north
Longitude
-89.86702° or 89° 52′ 1″ west
Population
1,050
Elevation
331 feet (101 metres)
Open location code
863GH4XM+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153351985
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4442363
Wiki­data ID
Q539466
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Prentiss” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “برنتيس”
  • Basque: “Prentiss”
  • Catalan: “Prentiss”
  • Cebuano: “Prentiss”
  • Chechen: “Прентисс”
  • Chinese: “Prentiss”
  • Chinese: “普蘭提斯”
  • Dutch: “Prentiss”
  • French: “Prentiss”
  • German: “Prentiss”
  • Gilaki: “پرنتیس (ميسيسيپي)”
  • Gilaki: “پرنتیس”
  • Haitian: “Prentiss, Mississippi”
  • Haitian: “Prentiss”
  • Hungarian: “Prentiss”
  • Irish: “Prentiss”
  • Italian: “Prentiss”
  • Japanese: “プレンティス”
  • Kazakh: “Прэнтисс”
  • Kirghiz: “Прэнтисс”
  • Ladin: “Prentiss”
  • Mazanderani: “پرنتیز (می‌سی‌سی‌پی)”
  • Mazanderani: “پرنتیز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Prentiss”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prentiss”
  • Norwegian: “Prentiss”
  • Persian: “پرنتیز”
  • Polish: “Prentiss”
  • Portuguese: “Prentiss”
  • Russian: “Прентисс”
  • Serbian: “Прентис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prentiss, Mississippi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prentiss”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرنتیس، میسیسیپی”
  • Spanish: “Prentiss”
  • Swedish: “Prentiss, Mississippi”
  • Swedish: “Prentiss”
  • Tatar: “Прентисс”
  • Ukrainian: “Прентісс”
  • Urdu: “پرینٹس، مسیسپی”
  • Urdu: “پرینٹس”
  • Uzbek: “Prentiss”
  • Vietnamese: “Prentiss, Mississippi”
  • Vietnamese: “Prentiss”
  • Volapük: “Prentiss”
  • Welsh: “Prentiss, Mississippi”
  • Welsh: “Prentiss”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Prentiss”. Photo: Calvin Beale, Public domain.