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The City Hall of Sparta, Mississippi, the top Has clear blue sky, in the middle a building with red brick wall, has white windows, a white door with a blue police sign and large pine trees and round bushes, in front is a flag pole with a red flag under a USA flag, a parking lot with three white police box type car with police detailed marks on it.

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

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Map of Sparta, MS 39776, USA

SPARTA MISSISSIPPI


A fictionalized Sparta was featured in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night and the television series in the 1980s and '90s. 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. (The real I-20 also crosses the Mississippi at Vicksburg from Louisiana, not Arkansas; the only sizeable Mississippi city near Arkansas, Greenville, has a bridge but no interstate, though future I-69 will run nearby.) The film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois, while most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, east of Atlanta (and near the real I-20).

Has clear blue sky in a grassland with trees at behind two SUV’s from left, a black police SUV with police markings “Sparta” at the right is a silver police SUV with police markings “Sparta” in front is three police men, from left a man is smiling, standing with his hand together in his belt, has black hair, wearing a blue Sparta police uniform with a black radio on his right chest, black watch and a black pants with a gun on his right belt along with black shoes, holster, in the middle a man is smiling, standing with his hand together in his belt, has bald head, white beard, wearing a blue Sparta police uniform with a black radio on his right chest, silver watch and a black pants with a gun on his right belt holster, along with black shoes, at the right a man is smiling, standing with his hand together in his belt, has black hair, wearing a blue Sparta police uniform with a black radio on his right chest and a black pants with a gun on his right belt holster, along with black shoes,

Most of the first season of the TV Series as well as the intro sequence with the Chief sitting at the railroad crossing was filmed in Hammond, Louisiana. Some of the features of this town that can be recognized are:

  • The Sanitary Barber Shop
  • The Columbia Theatre
  • The Hammond Cafe
  • The Hammond Finance Company
  • Stafford Furniture. Presently either out of business or moved to a new location.
  • A young man delivering news papers with the logo "Daily Star,"
  • The Hammond Post Office was made over to be Sparta's City Hall
  • The "One Hour Martinizing" dry cleaner shop was made over to be the Sparta Police Station.
  • The Toggery Shop
  • Anderson's Shoe Store
  • Billy Abel's Land of Sports was made over to be "Sonny Mims Land of Sports." Presently is a Fitness Center.

    • To see some of the features of Hammond that were included in this seasons, use Google Maps and enter "W Thomas and South Cate St Hammond LA". Most of the scenes are in a 4 block radius from that intersection.

    References

    Sparta, Mississippi Wikipedia
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