Rack market

Natchez, MS

#232 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 759 Gasoline & diesel Biodiesel

terminals: 1
pipeline systems delivering: 1
refineries confirmed: 0
more per research or by route: 13
people in the trade area: 128,796
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand: 178,577
gal/day diesel · estimated demand: 68,168

Terminals in this market

Terminal	TCN	Location	Delivered by
Lincoln Terminal Company	T-64-MS-2427	Natchez, MS	Inland Waterways

Pipelines delivering to this market

Each system with a tariff delivery point at one of this market’s terminals, and how many running refineries can ship on it to here.

Pipeline system	Terminals here	Delivery points	Refineries confirmed	All reachable
Inland Waterways	1	1	0	13

Refineries that can supply this market

Refinery	Location	Via	Link
Chalmette Refinery	Chalmette, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Ergon Refining Vicksburg Refinery	Vicksburg, MS	Inland Waterways	per research
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge Refinery	Baton Rouge, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Flint Hills Resources Pine Bend Refinery	Saint Paul, MN	Inland Waterways	per research
Krotz Springs Refinery	Krotz Springs, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Marathon Garyville Refinery	Garyville, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Phillips 66 Lake Charles Refinery (Lake Charles Manufacturing Complex)	Westlake, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Placid Refining Company Port Allen Refinery	Port Allen, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex (Norco Refinery)	Norco, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Valero Memphis Refinery	Memphis, TN	Inland Waterways	per research
Valero Meraux Refinery	Meraux, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Valero St. Charles Refinery (Norco Refinery)	Norco, LA	Inland Waterways	per research
Wood River Refinery	Wood River, IL	Inland Waterways	per research

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate: 128,796
rank of 422 rack markets by people: #349
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025: 178,577
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025: 68,168
counties wholly in this market: 4
counties shared with other markets: 14

County	State	Share here	People counted here	Gasoline gal/day	Diesel gal/day	County population	Miles
Adams County	MS	100%	30,061	35,940	10,528	30,061	6
Concordia Parish	LA	100%	17,836	22,664	5,905	17,836	12
Avoyelles Parish	LA	25%	9,436	9,988	2,954	37,941	45
Lincoln County	MS	24%	8,378	14,124	8,004	35,012	58
Wilkinson County	MS	100%	7,582	11,684	5,749	7,582	27
Franklin County	MS	100%	7,491	13,489	6,496	7,491	32
Catahoula Parish	LA	74%	6,053	10,167	2,811	8,223	26
Amite County	MS	47%	5,888	7,837	3,069	12,487	44
Pike County	MS	14%	5,540	8,281	4,477	38,712	66
Jefferson County	MS	75%	5,114	7,940	3,704	6,825	27
Franklin Parish	LA	27%	5,079	7,160	1,940	19,002	44
Copiah County	MS	18%	4,834	8,691	6,500	27,497	62
LaSalle Parish	LA	25%	3,826	4,228	1,064	15,154	44
West Feliciana Parish	LA	19%	2,842	2,740	753	15,134	46
East Feliciana Parish	LA	15%	2,753	3,528	983	18,911	53
Claiborne County	MS	31%	2,511	3,737	1,573	8,058	43
Pointe Coupee Parish	LA	9%	1,833	3,769	994	19,520	58
Tensas Parish	LA	47%	1,740	2,611	664	3,700	33

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

How good is it? Checked in October 2026 against the county retail sales Iowa and California publish: for gasoline, about 3–5% of gallons landed in the wrong rack market and a typical market was within 5–6%. For diesel, 14–21% landed in the wrong market and a typical market was 30–45% off, with truck-stop corridors such as Bakersfield and Stockton under-counted. Treat gasoline as a working estimate and diesel as a rough guide.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

No published pipeline rate into a terminal here is on file yet. Markets supplied by truck, rail or water have no tariff to read.

Supply resilience

pipeline supply: One pipeline
pipeline systems delivering: 1
terminals on two or more pipelines: 0
terminals with no pipeline tariff: 0

One pipeline system delivers here: Inland Waterways. An outage on it leaves the market to truck, rail or water.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system	Terminals it reaches here	With no other pipeline	Which
Inland Waterways	1	1	Lincoln Terminal Company

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market	Miles	Terminals	Pipelines
Alexandria, LA	62	1	—
Vicksburg, MS	67	1	1
Monroe, LA	72	1	—

Around the market

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Pump prices nearby

$3.911 Regular gasoline · PADD 3 · -0.3% on the week · +46.4% on the year

$5.819 Diesel · PADD 3 · -2.3% on the week · +70.5% on the year

EIA weekly retail survey, week of 2026-10-05: the closest area EIA reports, not this market alone.

Fuel taxes · Mississippi

42.8 ¢/gal Gasoline · state 24.4¢ + federal 18.4¢ (excise 24.0¢, other state taxes and fees 0.4¢)

48.8 ¢/gal Diesel · state 24.4¢ + federal 24.4¢ (excise 24.0¢, other state taxes and fees 0.4¢)

Taxed at: first receiver / first import (diesel: Below the Rack)
Figured on net gallons
Counties or cities may add their own fuel tax.
Rate rises to 24 cents per gallon for July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 and to 27 cents from July 1, 2027 forward.

Rates: EIA, in effect July 1, 2026, without county or city taxes. Rules: Federation of Tax Administrators, September 2025. Not tax advice: check the state agency before relying on a rate.

Terminal operators

1 operator; Lincoln Terminal runs 100% of the terminals.

Lincoln Terminal 1 terminal · 100%

Concentration index 10,000 (10,000 = one operator). By terminal count as named on the IRS list, not volume; affiliates under other names may be counted apart.

In the state

8 rack markets in MS.

Source

Rack market list and codes from OPIS; terminals from the IRS Terminal Control Number list; pipeline reach from published FERC and state tariffs; refinery links from tariffs and sourced research. Rack prices and suppliers posting at each terminal are not shown yet.

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.