Mount Pleasant, Mississippi

Mount Pleasant (or Mt. Pleasant) is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States, located along U.S. Highway 72 at State Highway 311. The community has a volunteer fire department on Boswell Road, and a K-12 school located off Highway 72.

It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census, which listed a population of 293.

Geography
Mount Pleasant is in northern Marshall County, less than 3 mi south of the Tennessee border. US Highway 72, a four-lane highway, passes through the north side of the community, leading east 57 mi to Corinth and northwest 11 mi to Collierville, Tennessee, and 34 mi to Memphis. State Highway 311 leads south from Mount Pleasant 14 mi to Holly Springs, the Marshall county seat. Nearby unincorporated communities include Cayce to the west, Taska to the southwest, and Slayden to the east.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Mount Pleasant CDP has an area of 2.4 sqmi, all land. Little Coldwater Creek forms the southern boundary of the CDP; the creek is a west-flowing tributary of the Coldwater River, part of the Tallahatchie River watershed.

2020 census
''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''

Notable people

 * Joseph N. Brown, member of the Mississippi Senate from 1918 to 1922
 * Benn Karr, former Major League Baseball pitcher