UNITED STATES
               SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                      WASHINGTON D.C. 20549
                                
                                
                                
                            FORM 8-K
                                
                                
                                
                         CURRENT REPORT
                                
                                
                                
             PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                 SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
                                
                                
                          June 25, 1998
        Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
                                
                                
             MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES, INC.
       (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
                                
                                
                                
    TENNESSEE                   1-12762                      62-1543819
(State of Incorporation)  (Commission File Number)       (I.R.S. Employer 
                                                      Identification Number)
                                
                                
                                
                                
                  6584 POPLAR AVENUE, SUITE 340
                    MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 38138
            (Address of principal executive offices)
                                
                                
                                
                         (901) 682-6600
       Registrant's telephone number, including area code
                                
                                
                                
                                
                                
     (Former name or address, if changed since last report)
                                
                                
                                

                      Explanation of Filing

     This report contains as an exhibit the Underwriting
Agreement between Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., Mid-
America Apartments, L.P. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated,
Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., Raymond James & Associates, Inc.,
and The Robinson-Humphrey Company in connection with the sale of
2,000,000 shares of the Company's 9 3/8% Series C Cumulative
Redeemable Preferred Stock, $.01 par value per share, $25.00
liquidation value per share, pursuant to the Company's Prospectus
Supplement dated June 25, 1998, to a base Prospectus dated
September 9, 1997, included as a part of a Registration Statement
on Form S-3 (No. 333-34775) filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on September 2, 1997.

Item 7.   Financial Statements, Pro Forma Financial Information
          and Exhibits.

          (c)  Exhibits.

          The following exhibits are filed herewith:

Exhibit             Description
- --------           ----------------- 
1.1       Underwriting  Agreement between  Mid-America  Apartment
          Communities, Inc., Mid-America Apartments, L.P.  Morgan
          Stanley  &  Co. Incorporated, Morgan Keegan &  Company,
          Inc.,  Raymond  James  &  Associates,  Inc.,  and   The
          Robinson-Humphrey Company, LLC.



                           SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of  the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


                                MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMMUNITIES,INC.


Date:    June 30, 1998          /S/ Simon R.C. Wadsworth
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                                 Simon R.C. Wadsworth
                                 Executive Vice President
                                (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)