Sumrall is a town in Lamar County, Mississippi. It is portion of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,421 at the 2010 census.

Sumrall was one of many new towns incorporated along the Mississippi Central Railroad during the first decade of the 20th century. Prior to the start of the railroad, founder Daniel Sumrall operated a grist mill along Mill Creek. In 1890, the federal government conventional a make known office in the community and named it Sumrall. The J. J. Newman Company, headed by Fenwick Peck, chose the site as the location for a large sawmill. Situated in the heart of South Mississippi’s pine belt, the location was ideal for just such a large mill. Evidence of the setting of timber in the Place is supported by a prize-winning immediate leaf pine displayed at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. The tree was 160 feet tall, measured 20 feet in circumference and was 6 feet eight inches in diameter. With the beginning of the railroad, the town grew quickly and petitioned for interest as a town; this wish was decided by the Mississippi Legislature on October 6, 1902. Some beforehand residents wanted to modify the herald of the town because, although Daniel Sumrall was a native of Perry County in Mississippi, he had served in the Civil War as a Union soldier. The federal government had the definite choice in the thing and, as they refused to regulate the read out of the read out office, any alter in the name of the city would have been meaningless.

For nearly 30 years the Newman Lumber Company was the main industry of the city. As the timber industry was a “cut out and get out” operation at this time, when the mill depleted the profitable timber supply it ceased operation in 1931. Combined with the Great Depression, the shutdown of the mill had a marked impact on the town and left it afterward no large employer for approximately 20 years. In 1949, the Movie Star Company opened a woman’s lingerie tree-plant in friendly Purvis, and soon opened a similar plant in Sumrall which provided stable employment for many local women until the 1990s. The population of the city remained flat or declined from 1940-2000. As the metropolitan Place of Hattiesburg has expanded westward, Sumrall is now once once again experiencing economic growth. The Longleaf Trace, a recreational trail which follows the route of the former Mississippi Central Railroad, runs through the center of town. The Longleaf Trace extends from Hattiesburg, MS to Prentiss Mississippi and is popular gone bikers, hikers, and horseback riders.

In 2017 Cooperative Energy opened a solar farm (photovoltaic capacity station) near Sumrall.