Coila is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in

Carroll County, Mississippi Carroll County is a county in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,998. Its county seats are Carrollton and Vaiden. The county is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of ...

, United States. Coila is situated approximately nine miles south of Carrollton on Highway 17. Coila is part of the

Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area The Greenwood Micropolitan Statistical Area is a micropolitan area in the northwestern Delta region of Mississippi that covers two counties - Leflore and Carroll. As of the 2000 census, the USA had a population of 48,716 (though a July 1, 200 ...

and its ZIP code is 38923. "Coila" is a

Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...

phrase which translates to "panther comes there". A post office first began operation under the name Coila in 1849.

Notable person

*Blues guitarist

Brewer Phillips Brewer Phillips (November 16, 1924 – August 30, 1999) was an American blues Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated among African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporate ...

References

Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi Mississippi placenames of Native American origin {{CarrollCountyMS-geo-stub