Woodville

• Official Name — Woodville, Mississippi • Settlement Type — Town • Image Skyline — Wikinson County Mississippi Courthouse.jpg • Image Caption — Wilkinson County Courthouse in Woodville • Image Map — Wilkinson_County_Mississippi_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Woodville_Highlighted.svg • Mapsize — 250px • Map Caption — Location of Woodville, Mississippi • Pushpin Map — USA • Pushpin Map Caption — Location in the United States • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — United States • Subdivision Type1 — State • Subdivision Name1 — Mississippi • Subdivision Type2 — County • Subdivision Name2 — Wilkinson • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Jesse Stewart 2025- • Unit Pref — Imperial • Area Total Km2 — 2.68 • Area Land Km2 — 2.68 • Area Water Km2 — 0.00 • Area Total Sq Mi — 1.04 • Area Land Sq Mi — 1.04 • Area Water Sq Mi — 0.00 • Population As Of — 2020 • Population Total — 928 • Population Density Km2 — 345.83 • Population Density Sq Mi — 895.75 • Timezone — Central (CST) • Utc Offset — -6 • Timezone Dst — CDT • Utc Offset Dst — -5 • Elevation M — 123 • Elevation Ft — 404 • Postal Code Type — ZIP code • Postal Code — 39669 • Area Code — 601 • Blank Name — FIPS code • Blank Info — 28-81120 • Blank1 Name — GNIS feature ID • Blank1 Info — 0679870 • Website — http: www.woodvillems.org/ Woodville is one of the oldest towns in Mississippi and is the county seat of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States. Its population as of 2020 was 928.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.1 sqmi, all land.

According to a steamboat man named Samuel Clement, after the Battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson took from the U.S. armory two cannons that had been used at the Battle of Saratoga and sent one to Woodville and one to Natchez. In 1831 there was a plan to build a railroad from Woodville to St. Francisville at Bayou Sara under the title of West Feliciana Railroad Company. • Needs a year that the city was founded. Woodville Historic District, encompassing many of the older buildings in the urban center, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Per the 2020 United States census, there were 928 people, 386 households, and 277 families residing in the town; its racial composition was 77.95% black, 22.38% non-Hispanic white, 0.22% Native American, 0.11% Asian, 2.8% other or mixed, and 0.54% Hispanic or Latino of any race.

• Illustration — Wilkinson County High School Wilkinson County School District serves Woodville. There are three education facilities near Woodville: Wilkinson County Elementary School, Wilkinson County High School, and the private school Wilkinson County Christian Academy, which was established in 1969 as a segregation academy. Wilkinson County is in the district of Southwest Mississippi Community College.

The Woodville Republican, a weekly newspaper founded in 1823, is the oldest surviving business (and thus the oldest newspaper) in Mississippi.

• Julia K. Wetherill Baker (18581931), writer and poet, was born in Woodville • Betty Bentley Beaumont (1828–1892), author, merchant, cotton factor, hotel owner • Henry Cohen (rabbi), served here from 1885 to 1888 before going to Galveston, Texas, where he became a nationally known community leader • Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America; lived near here for a couple of years as a youth on Rosemont, his parents' plantation, and attended Woodville Academy before going to school in Kentucky. • Ronnie Edwards, Louisiana politician, born in Woodville • George Gonda, NFL player and mayor of Woodville • Will E. Keller, businessman • Rudolph Matthews, handball player • Edward Grady Partin (1924–1990), born in Woodville, he became a Teamsters Union business agent from Baton Rouge. His testimony sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison. • Carnot Posey, Civil War Confederate general • Peter Randolph, early 19th century Federal judge • Dan Reneau, President of Louisiana Tech University • William Grant Still, African-American classical composer and Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame inductee was born in Woodville on May 11, 1895. • Matt Tolbert, professional baseball infielder • W. P. S. Ventress (1854–1911), Mississippi state legislator • George W. Wheeler, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1920–30) • Lester Young (1909–1959), jazz musician and Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame inductee was born in Woodville. • William Henry Young, Wisconsin politician, born in Woodville