Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Doddsville, MS

Doddsville is a town in Sunflower County, Mississippi.

As of the 2020 census, Doddsville had a population of 69, down from 98 in 2010 and from 317 in 1930, the earliest census figure in its historical table.

The 2000 census counted 38 households in the town.

Doddsville was established by Daniel Doddsman Sr. in 1889; he and his eldest son Daniel Jr. had hauled logs in the area in 1888 and purchased 107 acres where the town now stands in 1891.

When the Yazoo Delta Railroad was completed in 1897, a depot was located in the town and named “Doddsville” after the Dodds brothers, and by 1898 the town had five stores and the Sunflower Lumber Company had been founded.

A landing called “Standing Stump” existed west of Doddsville on the bank of the Sunflower River, where boats from Vicksburg would come up the Yazoo River and then the Sunflower River when spring river levels rose.

Doddsville was incorporated in 1920, and by 1922 it had an estimated 400 to 500 residents, a hotel and rooming house, two drug stores with licensed pharmacists, two Chinese groceries, a café, a dress shop, a school, two churches, a woman’s club, four doctors, and five passenger trains a day.

A jail was built in Doddsville in 1952, and a town water system was installed in 1963.

In 1904, Luther Holbert and his wife were lynched at Doddsville after Holbert allegedly shot and killed plantation owner James Eastland, an event that gained national attention.

Doddsville covers 0.77 square miles, all land, and its ZIP code is 38736.