Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Gluckstadt, MS

Gluckstadt is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, and it is the state's newest municipality, incorporated in June 2021.

At the 2020 census Gluckstadt was still tabulated as a census-designated place, with a population of 3,208, so its 2020 count is a CDP count even though the community is a city today.

Gluckstadt dates to the early 1900s, when German immigrants who had first come to Indiana bought farmland from the Highland Colony Company in 1905, with Henry Klaas, John Kehle, Valentine Fitsch, Peter Schmidt and Joseph Weiland among the first buyers.

The name Gluckstadt is German for lucky city, and the community's German heritage is still celebrated by descendants of the original families, including the Minninger and Weisenberger families.

Gluckstadt lies in Madison County between the cities of Madison and Canton, along the Interstate 55 and U.S. Route 51 corridor north of Jackson.

Gluckstadt's post office opened in 1905 and closed in 1918.

Growth in the area drove the incorporation effort, with Germantown Middle School growing from 470 students and 40 faculty and staff at opening to more than 1,050 students and 83 faculty and staff, and Germantown High School growing from 602 students in its first year to about 1,203 students in the 2018-19 school year.

The incorporation was contested in court because the City of Canton sought to annex some of the same territory, but the Mississippi Supreme Court affirmed the chancery court's decision granting Gluckstadt's incorporation in 2021.

Madison County, in which Gluckstadt sits, had a population of 109,145 at the 2020 census and is on the northern edge of the Jackson metropolitan area.

Gluckstadt is served by Madison's ZIP code 39046, since it has no post office of its own.