Montrose, MS

Montrose is a town in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. The 2020 census counted 104 residents. Montrose High School became Mississippi Conference Training School. Walter Waddell James attended Montrose High School and became a lawyer and mayor of Newton, Mississippi. Its comprehensive high school is Bay Springs High School. A newcomer can read Montrose through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Montrose comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Mississippi Highway 15 passes through the town, leading southwest 11 miles to Bay Springs, the county seat, and northeast 16 miles to Newton.