Basic is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States.

[1] Basic is located on the former Mobile and Ohio Railroad and was once home to two sawmills and two general stores.

[2] A post office called Basic was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1945.

[4] In South and West: From a Notebook, Joan Didion notes that when she visited the town in the 1970s, it was "not on the map.

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