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Vardaman is a town in Calhoun County, Mississippi, and as of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,110 people living in 440 households.

The town is named after James Kimble Vardaman, who served as Mississippi's governor from 1904 to 1908 and later became a member of the United States Senate.

In the town's early days its post office was named Timberville while the town itself was known as Vardaman, and the post office was officially renamed Vardaman in 1912 after Postmaster Henry Clay Payne refused to name it after a man who had attacked Theodore Roosevelt in print.

Vardaman was established in 1904, and by 1906 the Southern Railway had built a rail branch through town connecting it to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, a line later sold in 1933 to form the Okolona, Houston and Calhoun City Railway, which operated a stop at Vardaman until 1940.

Vardaman sits in eastern Calhoun County, where Mississippi Highway 8 passes through town leading west 8 miles to Calhoun City and east 10 miles to Houston, while Mississippi Highway 341 runs north to Pontotoc and south to Atlanta and Woodland.

The Yalobusha River, a tributary of the Yazoo River, flows past the town less than one mile to the south, and the town covers 1.36 square miles of land with the ZIP code 38878.

Vardaman lies in one of Mississippi's top five sweet potato-producing counties and has been proclaimed the Sweet Potato Capital of the World.

The Vardaman Sweet Potato Festival, also known as the National Sweet Potato Festival, is held in town annually during the entire first week of November.

Vardaman is served by the Calhoun County School District, with children attending Vardaman Elementary School for grades K-6 and Vardaman High School for grades 7-12, whose teams are known as the Rams.

The Vardaman Rams football program has won 14 division titles, advanced to the North Half State Finals six times, and appeared in the playoffs 29 times, tied for the fifth most all-time in the state.