Sparta, Mississippi

Sparta, Mississippi

Sparta is a small unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States, in the northeastern part of the state.

A fictionalized Sparta was featured in the 1967 film "In the Heat of the Night " and the later television series. This fictional version of Sparta differs geographically from the real Sparta in several ways. The fictional version was shown as being across the river from Arkansas and adjacent to Interstate 20, but the real Sparta is nowhere near any Interstate highway or state boundary. For geopolitical reasons the film could not have been shot in the Deep South and was actually filmed in Sparta, Illinois.The Television series was filmed in Covington, Georgia


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