MS 492, traveling through the southernmost portion of the town where some businesses exist along the road, reaches an intersection with Chadwick Avenue.

The road heads into a more wooded area as it passes the closed Walnut Grove Correctional Facility and exits the town limits.

Crossing into Scott County, the road heads generally east along rolling hills, passing the entrance to Golden Memorial State Park.

Crossing a railroad at-grade, the state highway travels through the center of town where it passes businesses, some houses, churches, and the northern terminus of MS 489.

[7] It was extended to the west to Walnut Grove (by traveling south along a portion of MS 21 from Sebastopol) and to the east to House in 1957.

[8][9] Between 1965 and 1967, the segment west of Sebastopol was removed from the state highway system, however a portion of it in the immediate vicinity of Walnut Grove was restored by 1977.