Carrollton, MS

Carrollton is a town in and the second county seat of Carroll County, Mississippi, United States, which is within the Mississippi Delta. The 2020 census counted 423 residents. Centrally located in the county, the town is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area. The second county seat, Vaiden, was founded in the south eastern part of the county during its early settlement. Its schools are Marshall Elementary School and J. Carrollton's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Mississippi setting.

The local scoop is how Carrollton's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The town was developed as the county seat and trading center for rural Carroll County, which was devoted to cotton agriculture and plantations in the antebellum era. The town was the location of the Carroll County Courthouse Massacre, in 1886. Carrollton is located in central Carroll County on the south side of Big Sand Creek, a tributary of the Yalobusha River.