Hickory Flat, MS

Hickory Flat is a town in Benton County, Mississippi, United States. The 2020 census counted 496 residents. Hickory Flat was named from a nearby grove of hickory trees. In 1907, Hickory Flat was described as an incorporated postal town situated on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad. Hickory Flat'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 Hickory Flat's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. U.S. Route 78, a freeway, serves the town via Exit 48. Mississippi Highway 178, following the former route of US 78, runs through the center of the town.