Blue Springs, Mississippi

Blue Springs is a small village in Union County in northeastern Mississippi, in the southern United States, set along Mississippi Highway 9 to the northwest of Tupelo. It began in 1888 as a stop on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, and many of its first residents came from the older nearby community of Ellistown, which the railroad had bypassed. The 2020 census counted 436 residents, so it remains a very small place, with the town of Sherman just to the southeast. Its modern significance comes from industry rather than size, because it is the site of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, Toyota's eighth North American vehicle assembly plant, which was begun in 2007, paused during the economic downturn and restarted in 2010. Schools are served by the Union County School District.