Bassfield, Mississippi

About Bassfield

Bassfield is a tiny community in southern Mississippi counting 182 people who proudly call it home.

Bassfield holds the status of an incorporated town — local government on a neighborly scale. The community covers 1 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 182 residents per square mile.

📰 Bassfield News Today

• Jefferson Davis County Residents Sound Alarm Over Proposed $6 Billion Data Center, Fearing Widespread Harms Mississippi Free Press · Oct 7
• Weather Forecast and Conditions for Bassfield, Mississippi - The Weather Channel | Weather.com The Weather Channel · Jul 18
• Accident claims lives of three teens, including Bassfield sisters Prentiss Headlight · Feb 20
• Schedule - Jefferson Davis County Jaguars (Bassfield, MS) Baseball 26-27 MaxPreps · Sep 21
• Bassfield’s Beaver Creek Distillery named state’s Rural Small Business of the Year - WDAM-TV WDAM-TV · May 29

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

📰 Local News

Read the latest Mississippi headlines on our news site, Bless News Daily.

What Makes Bassfield Unique

• The only place in America named Bassfield — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• Positioned in southern Mississippi, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.
• Part of the fabric of Mississippi — one of 427 recognized communities statewide.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 15 miles.

🏫 Schools in Bassfield

• CARVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
• JDC HIGH SCHOOL
• JEFF DAVIS CO VOC TECH CENTER

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

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