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Eupora is the largest city in Webster County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Eupora had a population of 2,018. == History == Eupora was established in 1889 by European Americans on a spur track of the Georgia Pacific Railway. While there had been agricultural development prior to this in the county, the railroad stimulated trade and businesses. Today this is the largest city in the county. Near here was a site in 1770 of armed conflict among some Native American tribes. The Chakchiuma were destroyed by the allied Choctaw and Chickasaw, who were traditional enemies in the region. They dominated territories in what became Mississippi and Alabama. In 1904, Bud Simpson, an African-American man accused of raping white girls, was not given a trial, and was hanged from a tree by a group of 200 cheering white people, who then shot him. == Geography == According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2), of which 3.3 square miles (8.4 km2) is land and 0.3 square mile (0.8 km2) (8.94%) is water.