Hub, Mississippi

Hub, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
Hub is located in Mississippi
Hub
Hub
Hub is located in the United States
Hub
Hub
Coordinates: 31°8′44″N 89°45′00″W / 31.14556°N 89.75000°W / 31.14556; -89.75000
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyMarion
Elevation
144 ft (44 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID691947[1]

Hub is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.

South of Hub is the Lower Little Creek, a tributary of the Pearl River.

Hub was never incorporated, and had a post office from 1899 to 1954.[2]

A shortline logging railroad, constructed by Camp & Hinton Brothers in the 1880s, began in Hub and extended several miles south. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, a mainline railroad, was built through Hub in 1899.[3]

Hub once had two operating sawmills and had a population of 25 in 1900.[4]

In 1945, Humble Oil discovered the Hub Field. It eventually produced 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas and eight million barrels of oil.[5] The California Oil Company and the Pan American Petroleum Corporation also operated wells in the Hub Field.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Hub". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ "Hub post office". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ "Hub, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  4. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 891.
  5. ^ Hughes, Dudley J. (1993). Oil in the Deep South. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 220. ISBN 0-87805-615-7.
  6. ^ "Appendix". Federal Register. 28 (158): 8334. 1963.


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