Durant is a city close the central eastern border of Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, and gigantic Black River. The town was founded in 1858 as a station on the Mississippi Central Railroad, later allocation of the Illinois Central. Durant was named for Louis Durant, a Choctaw chief who had lived on this site back the United States undertook Indian Removal in the 1830s, forcing him and most of the Choctaw to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

The population of the rural city was 2,673 at the 2010 census, down from 2,932 at the 2000 census.

About 3 miles away is the Castalian Springs Hotel, believed in 2020 to be the only permanent such spa structure in the state. A dozen mineral springs resorts were identified in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Guide to Mississippi (1938), written during the Great Depression. Such springs were believed to have healing properties.

The Choctaw are a Native American tribe who occupied much of Mississippi as portion of their territory with ease before any European exploration. They were in the course of a concurrence of original cultures time-honored here for thousands of years. After they were forced to cede most of their land to the United States and to separate to Indian Territory in the 1830s, an increasing number of European Americans migrated here to fabricate the estate for large cotton plantations. Before the Civil War, this was known as the “dark corner of the county.”