Panola County, Mississippi

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Panola County
County
Panola County Courthouse (designed by Pritchard & Nickles)[1]
Location within the U.S. state of Mississippi
Mississippi's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 34°22′N 89°57′W / 34.36°N 89.95°W / 34.36; -89.95
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
Founded	February 9, 1836
Named for	name of Cotton in the Choctaw language
Seat	Batesville and Sardis
Largest city	Batesville
Area
• Total	705 sq mi (1,830 km2)
• Land	685 sq mi (1,770 km2)
• Water	20 sq mi (50 km2)  2.8%
Population  (2020)
• Total	33,208
• Density	47/sq mi (18/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district	2nd
Website	www.panolacoms.com

Panola County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,208.^[2] Its county seats are Sardis and Batesville.^[3] The county is located just east of the Mississippi Delta in the northern part of the state. It is bisected by the Tallahatchie River flowing to the southwest; travel difficulties because of the river resulted in two county seats being established.

Panola is the anglicization of ponolo, a word meaning "thread" in both old Choctaw and Chickasaw and "cotton" in modern Choctaw.^[4] This was one of twelve large counties organized from the Chickasaw Cession of 1832.