Starkville is a city in, and the county chair of, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, United States. Mississippi State University is a land-grant institution and is located partially in Starkville but primarily in an neighboring unincorporated Place designated by the United States Census Bureau as Mississippi State, Mississippi. The population was 25,653 in 2019. Starkville is the most populous city of the Golden Triangle region of Mississippi. The Starkville micropolitan statistical area includes whatever of Oktibbeha County.

The bump and enhance of Mississippi State in recent decades has made Starkville a marquee American teacher town. College students and knack have created a ready audience for several annual art and entertainment comings and goings such as the Cotton District Arts Festival, Super Bulldog Weekend, and Bulldog Bash. The Cotton District, North America’s oldest further urbanist community, is an swift student quarter and entertainment district located halfway in the midst of Downtown Starkville and the Mississippi State University campus.

The Starkville Place has been inhabited for exceeding 2,100 years. Artifacts in the form of clay pot fragments and artwork dating from that time grow old have been found east of Starkville at the Herman Mound and Village site, which is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places. The village site can be accessed from the Indian Mound Campground. The earthwork mounds were made by at the forefront Native Americans of moundbuilder cultures as allowance of their religious and diplomatic cosmology.

Shortly before the American Revolutionary War period, the Place was inhabited by the Choccuma (or Chakchiuma) tribe. They were annihilated not quite that time by a rare alliance between the Choctaw and Chickasaw peoples.