Houston's Spur, Mississippi

Sharkey County

Population:   

Town incorporated:  no

Post office:  no

Railroads: Y&MV

 

Next Town North- Spanish Fort

 

Milepost 197

(from Memphis, TN via Clarksdale and Silver City)

 

Next Town South- Little Sunflower

 

soil survey map

 

1964 USGS topo map

1920 Y&MV track profile updated to 1939- Collection of Robert Tomb

HISTORY by Tony Howe: This was the location of a logging railroad of Houston Brothers Lumber Co. of Vicksburg.

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For more information contact Tony Howe at tonyhowe76@yahoo.com or David S. Price at dsprice46@bellsouth.net