Baldwyn is a city in Lee and Prentiss counties, Mississippi, United States.

Founded on November 20, 1860,[4] it was incorporated by an act of the Legislature in Tishomingo and Itawamba counties on April 1, 1861.

[5] Baldwyn is an outgrowth of the village of Carrollville: when the Mobile and Ohio Railroad was being built during the years of 1848 to 1861, it missed Carrollville by one and one-half miles and the citizens moved to the new town of Baldwyn, which was named for the civil engineer who surveyed the road through the town.

Tishomingo, chief of the Chickasaw nation, lived at Carrollville but died near Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1839 of smallpox while being moved west with his tribe.

[6] As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 3,071 people, 1,162 households, and 680 families residing in the city.

It is located in Prentiss county, six nautical miles (6.9 mi; 11 km) southwest of Booneville's central business district.