• Durant is a city in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. It was founded in 1858 as a station on the Mississippi Central Railroad, later part of the Illinois Central. Durant was named for Louis Durant, a Choctaw chief who had lived on a bluff just across the nearby Big Black River before Indian Removal. Before the Civil War, this was known as the “dark corner of the county.” Cotton plantations predominated with numerous black slaves. The area is still largely rural and agricultural. The population of the city is 2,673.
• Durant is in eastern Holmes County on the west side of the valley of the Big Black River. S. Route 51 passes through the center of town, leading north 19 miles (31 km) to Vaiden and south 8 miles (13 km) to Goodman. Mississippi Highway 12 intersects US 51 in Durant; it leads east 17 miles (27 km) to Kosciusko and west 13 miles (21 km) to Lexington. Interstate 55 has an interchange with Highway 12 3 miles (5 km) west of Durant; I-55 leads south 61 miles (98 km) to Jackson, the state capital, and north 148 miles (238 km) to Memphis.
• According to the United States Census Bureau, Durant has a total area of 2.3 square miles (5.9 km²), of which 0.02 square miles (0.06 km²), or 1.04%, are water