Nitta Yuma, Mississippi

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|settlement_type = Census-designated place

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|subdivision_name1 = Mississippi

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Sharkey

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|area_total_km2 = 0.50

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|area_total_sq_mi = 0.19

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|population_as_of = 2020

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|population_total = 8

|population_density_km2 = 16.10

|population_density_sq_mi = 41.67

|timezone = Central (CST)

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|timezone_DST = CDT

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|area_code = 662

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Nitta Yuma is a census-designated place and unincorporated community located in Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States. Nitta Yuma is located along U.S. Route 61, approximately four miles north of Anguilla.

The name "Nitta Yuma" is derived from the Choctaw language.{{cite book|last=Baca|first=Keith A.|title=Native American Place Names in Mississippi|url=https://epdf.pub/native-american-place-names-in-mississippi.html|year=2007|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-60473-483-6|page=64}} The Choctaw had long occupied this area, for thousands of years before Europeans. The Vick and Willis families developed cotton plantations on Deer Creek after they were first surveyed and offered for sale by the federal government.Mrs. Henry Vick Phelps (Dorothy Cole) and Henry Vick Phelps II. (1974). Nitta Yuma king cotton. Nitta Yuma, Ms: D.C. Phelps. p. 22 f.

It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 8.{{Cite web|title=Nitta Yuma CDP, Mississippi|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2851960|website=United States Census Bureau|access-date=March 13, 2022}}