Billups, Mississippi

Billups is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi.

Billups, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 33°25′50″N 88°35′06″W
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Lowndes
Elevation	226 ft (69 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code	662
GNIS feature ID	691704[1]

Billups is located west of Columbus and just south of Golden Triangle Regional Airport. According to the United States Geological Survey, variant names are Billups Gate and Billups Station.^[1]

Billups is the site of the former 2,000 acre plantation of Colonel Thomas C. Billups.^[2]

Billups was a flag stop on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.^[3] The first oil well in Lowndes County was drilled in Billups in 1921 and gravel and logs were shipped from the community.^[4]

A post office operated under the name Billups from 1901 to 1906.^[5]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Billups
2. Moore, John Hebron (1988). The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770-1860. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. p. 121. ISBN 0-8071-1382-4.
3. Rawick, George P. (1977). The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood Publishing Company. p. 2124. ISBN 9780837197562.
4. "Phase I Historic Resources Survey Along Luxapalila Creek, And At The Remains Of A Historic Mill (22L0948), Lowndes County, Mississippi" (PDF). Defense Technical Information Center. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
5. "Lowndes County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved April 10, 2023.