Stewart, Mississippi

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|settlement_type = Census-designated place

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|subdivision_name1 = Mississippi

|subdivision_type2 = County

|subdivision_name2 = Montgomery

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|area_footnotes = {{cite web |title=2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Mississippi |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2023_Gazetteer/2023_gaz_place_28.txt |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=March 13, 2024}}

|area_total_km2 = 2.92

|area_land_km2 = 2.92

|area_water_km2 = 0.00

|area_total_sq_mi = 1.13

|area_land_sq_mi = 1.13

|area_water_sq_mi = 0.00

|population_as_of = 2020

|population_footnotes = {{Cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=&g=1600000US2870640&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1| title=P1. Race – Stewart CDP, Mississippi: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=March 13, 2024}}

|population_total = 99

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|population_density_km2 = 33.90

|population_density_sq_mi = 87.77

|timezone = Central (CST)

|utc_offset = -6

|timezone_DST = CDT

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|elevation_ft = 351

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|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 39767

|area_code = 662

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|blank_info = 678280

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Stewart is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Mississippi, United States.{{cite gnis|678280|Stewart, Mississippi}} As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 99.{{Cite web|title=Stewart CDP, Mississippi|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2870640|website=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=March 13, 2022}}

The Stewart Volunteer Fire Department is located in Stewart.{{cite web | title = Fire Services | date = February 11, 2016 | publisher = Montgomery County Board of Supervisors | url = http://www.montgomerycountyms.com/fire-services | accessdate = October 26, 2018}}

History

The Georgia Pacific Railway completed a line through Stewart in late 1880s.{{cite book | title = Poor's Manual of Railroads | publisher = H.V. & H.W. Poor | year = 1893 | url = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4647644;view=1up;seq=760 | pages = 562}}

By 1906, Stewart had a post office and a population of 200.{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/548960-redirection | volume = 2 | page = 733}}

A bed of iron ore located {{convert|3|mi|km|abbr=on}} north of Stewart was mined during the 1950s, and shipped by railway to Birmingham, Alabama for processing.{{cite book | last = Kern | first = Marshall K. | title = An Investigation of Mississippi Iron Ores | publisher = Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographical Survey | year = 1963 | url = https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bulletin-101.pdf | pages = 28, 32}}

It was first listed as a census-designated place for the 2020 census.

Geography

Stewart is in eastern Montgomery County and is bordered to the north by Webster County. U.S. Route 82 passes through the community, leading west {{convert|8|mi|0}} to Kilmichael and northeast {{convert|12|mi}} to Eupora. Winona, the Montgomery county seat, is {{convert|19|mi}} to the west via US 82.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Stewart CDP has an area of {{convert|1.13|sqmi|2}}, all land. The Big Black River passes to the south of the community.

Demographics

{{US Census population

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|+Stewart CDP, Mississippi – Racial and ethnic composition
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!Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic)

!Pop 2020{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Stewart CDP, Mississippi|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US2870640&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=}}

!% 2020

White alone (NH)

|91

|91.92%

Black or African American alone (NH)

|4.04%

Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)

|1.01%

Asian alone (NH)

|0.00%

Pacific Islander alone (NH)

|0.00%