Beaumont, MS

Beaumont is a Perry County town at the edge of De Soto National Forest and within the Hattiesburg metro. The town's map is more pine-country crossroads than urban center: Perry County schools serve Beaumont, with elementary grades in town and secondary students traveling to New Augusta. The forest edge is the stronger geographic clue, putting Beaumont in south Mississippi's woods-and-highway country rather than the coastal cities farther south. It is a small place, but not an anonymous one—the town name sits where Perry County roads meet the De Soto landscape, with Hattiesburg's wider orbit in the background.