Batesville Mounds, Archaeological site with conical earthen mounds in Panola County, Mississippi, United States

Batesville Mounds is an archaeological site in Panola County, Mississippi, preserving conical earthen mounds built during the Early to Middle Woodland period (500–1000 A.D.). Of the five mounds recorded in 1926, only Mounds B and C still exist; the site opened as a public park in January 2018.

Calvin Smith Brown recorded Mounds A to E in 1926; William G. Haag re-examined them in 1949. Excavations indicate the mounds date to the Early to Middle Woodland period, 500–1000 A.D. Mound E disappeared in the following decades, likely destroyed by crop harvesting. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and designated a Mississippi Landmark on March 23, 1989.

The mounds served as both habitation and burial sites, so the site combines everyday settlement with the burial of the dead. The Smithsonian Institution spent 13 years researching such earthworks, concluding in 1894 that they were built by North American indigenous peoples, not by lost tribes or foreign refugees.

The site opened as a public park in January 2018, and only Mounds B and C of the original group still stand. Visitors reach it in Panola County, Mississippi, near Batesville, where the surviving earthworks lie in a wooded setting. Ground can be uneven, so sturdy shoes help; the mounds themselves should not be climbed.

Next to the mounds, a historic railroad track from the mid-1800s still runs in use today, creating a direct connection to past transportation routes. Nearby, an old sunken or unused public road is believed to have once been part of the historic Stagecoach Road.