[2] It is located along the Chickasawhay River in Greene County, Mississippi, United States.

Under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, they were forced to cede their lands in this area to the United States.

The Choctaw were the first of the Southeast Five Civilized Tribes to be removed to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), west of the Mississippi River.

A post office called Leakesville has been in operation since 1829, when European Americans established a settlement here.

[6] The area was developed for cotton plantations in the nineteenth century, and remains mostly rural.

In 1927, an African-American man named Bernice Raspberry, aged 23, who had been arrested for alleged improper conduct with a white woman, was taken from the jail and lynched.

[8] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 3,775 people, 340 households, and 241 families residing in the town.

The sudden population increase and shift in racial demographics can be explained by the annexation of the South Mississippi Correctional Institution.