Forest 8/13/2004 Back to counties History here. Scott county was part of the land ceded to the State of Mississippi by the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (with the Choctaws), concluded on September 27, 1830. The counties included in the Choctaw Purchase were Noxubee, Neshoba, Leake, Newton, Smith, Jasper, Clarke, Lauderdale, and Scott,