Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Houston, MS

Houston is a city and one of two county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, the other being Okolona, and its ZIP code is 38851.

The 2020 census counted 3,797 residents in Houston, living in 1,497 households.

Houston was named by Judge Joel Pinson, who donated land for the county seat in 1836, in honor of Sam Houston, a childhood friend.

Houston was incorporated on May 9, 1837, which means Houston, Mississippi actually predates Houston, Texas, because the Texas city was incorporated one month later, on June 5, 1837.

Chickasaw County was authorized on February 9, 1836, and in 1866 the state authorized a second judicial district based in Okolona while allowing the existing court facilities in Houston to continue, making the county one of the few in the nation to host two bases for its court system.

In 1909 Houston became home to the first Carnegie library in the state of Mississippi, after local school superintendent L. B. Reid's request for a public library was approved by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Houston hosts the Mississippi Flywheel Festival in April and September of every year.

Houston High School's solar car program, the Sundancer/Houston Solar Race Team, won the Open Division of the national Solar Car Challenge for 14 consecutive years and claimed its 15th consecutive national championship in 2018.

In October 2015 the team's car, Sundancer, became the first high school vehicle to complete and win the Adventure Class of the World Solar Challenge in Australia, a roughly 1,800-mile race, and set a World Solar Challenge single-day distance record of 252 miles.

The Natchez Trace Parkway passes about 3 miles east of Houston, following an ancient Native American trail.