Mount Pleasant, MS

Mount 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 2020 census counted 293 residents. The community has a volunteer fire department on Boswell Road, and a K-12 school located off Highway 72. Mount Pleasant is in northern Marshall County, less than 3 miles south of the Tennessee border. That mix gives Mount Pleasant a clear local shape within Mississippi, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. US Highway 72, a four-lane highway, passes through the north side of the community, leading east 57 miles to Corinth and northwest 11 miles to Collierville, Tennessee, and 34 miles to Memphis.