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History · Satartia

Half of Satartia’s homes were built after 1968

Most of Satartia was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1968. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1940 on, and the census since 1900.

0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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What stands out about Satartia’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 187 in 1910; 41 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Satartia’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewFloods - Mississippi River Flood: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Satartia, census by census

01002001900192019401960198020002020Peak: 187

Peaked at 187 in 1910; 41 people lived here in 2020.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Satartia’s Wikipedia page.

The story

How Satartia came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Satartia.

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Satartia is a Choctaw word meaning "pumpkin place", likely due to the small gourds that grow in the area. In the early 1800s, Satartia was a busy shipping point from which cotton was transported by steamboat to New Orleans along the Yazoo River.

During the Civil War, General Grant sailed a gunboat from Vicksburg and captured the village; the Wilson House on Plum Street was used as his headquarters during the occupation. The war also produced the "Satartia Rifles", of the 12th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, a well-regarded Confederate company and recruitment group.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Satartia, 1910 to 1966

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1910CensusPopulation peaks at 187
  3. 1927In the archiveFloods - Mississippi River Flood
  4. 1940On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1966Born hereRod Barnes is born here
By decade

Satartia, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1920s1 item
Floods - Mississippi River Flood1927Floods - Mississippi River Flood
1930s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today3 recent
WelcomeToSatartiaSign2024WelcomeToSatartiaSignYazoo River2011Yazoo RiverSatartia Gin2011Satartia Gin
On the map

Satartia on the map, 1940 to 1988

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Satartia. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Satartia on the 1940 USGS mapSatartia on the 1963 USGS mapSatartia on the 1988 USGS map1940Mechanicsburg sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Satartia.

Then & now

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Floods - Mississippi River Flood
Retake this viewFloods - Mississippi River Flood, 1927

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.