Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Satartia, MS

Satartia is a village in Yazoo County, Mississippi, on the east bank of the Yazoo River.

Per the 2020 census, the population was 41, making Satartia Mississippi's smallest incorporated municipality by population.

Satartia is a Choctaw word meaning "pumpkin place," likely for the small gourds that grow in the area.

Satartia was once a thriving river port and is one of the oldest non-Native settlements in Yazoo County; in the early 1800s cotton was shipped by steamboat from Satartia to New Orleans along the Yazoo River.

During the Civil War, General Grant sailed a gunboat from Vicksburg and captured the village, using the Wilson House on Plum Street as his headquarters during the occupation.

The war also produced the "Satartia Rifles" of the 12th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, a well-regarded Confederate company and recruitment group.

The village covers 0.14 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 102 feet.

In the 2020 census, 35 residents were White and 2 were Black, with 2 more of mixed race and 2 Hispanic or Latino.

The 2000 census counted 28 households in the village, with an average household size of 2.43.

In February 2020, a pressurized Denbury Resources pipeline carrying liquid carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide ruptured less than half a mile from Satartia, and first responders evacuated the village's 42 residents and about 250 others nearby.