Biohazard Cleanup Near North Summit Summit, MS

Summit is a town in Pike County, Mississippi, and it is part of the McComb Micropolitan Statistical Area.

As of the 2020 census, Summit had a population of 1,505 in 649 households, down from 1,705 in 2010.

Summit originated as a railroad town and was named Summit because it was thought to be the highest point on the Illinois Central Railroad between New Orleans and Jackson, Tennessee, though nearby Brookhaven actually holds that distinction.

The town's population peaked at 1,753 in 1980, and its 2020 racial composition was about 76.9 percent Black or African American and 18.3 percent White.

The median age in Summit was 40.3 years at the 2020 census, with 23.5 percent of residents under 18 and 21.3 percent aged 65 or older.

In the 1960s, three women artists, Halcyone Barnes, Bess Phipps Dawson and Ruth Atkinson Holmes, exhibited their artwork in Summit and became known as the 'Summit Trio,' after training with Roy Schultz at Summit Junior College.

Almost all of Summit is served by the McComb School District, while a small portion in the south lies within the North Pike School District, and Southwest Mississippi Community College sits in an unincorporated area near the town.

Summit covers 2.31 square miles, all land, at an elevation of 433 feet, and its ZIP code is 39666.

Notable people from Summit include NFL nose tackle Vernon Butler, jazz musician John Gilmore, painter Marie Hull, NBA player and coach Ed Manning, basketball player Alijah Martin, and U.S. Representative and Mississippi Supreme Court justice T. R. Stockdale.

Cajun humorist and chef Justin Wilson is also counted among Summit's notable people.