Hurricane, Mississippi

Hurricane
Unincorporated community
Hurricane is located in Mississippi
Hurricane
Hurricane
Hurricane's position in Mississippi
Coordinates: 34°21′04″N 89°08′52″W / 34.35111°N 89.14778°W / 34.35111; -89.14778
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyPontotoc
Elevation
[1]
354 ft (108 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID693562[1]

Hurricane is an unincorporated community in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, United States.[1] It was originally called Esperanza, but the name changed due to being impacted by several severe storms.

History

The Esperanza Post Office was established in 1871[2] and continued into the early 1900s.[3] The population in 1900 was 26.[3] But sometime before 1900, the inhabitants began calling the community "Hurricane" after it was hit by a hurricane season storm from the Gulf of Mexico.[2] The New Prospect Baptist Church, originally housed in a 1880s wood building, was renamed Hurricane Baptist in 1940 when a two-story brick building replaced the prior structure.[4]

On April 27, 2011, a tornado touched down in the Esperanza area as part of the 2011 Super Outbreak, but apparently caused no damage.[5]

Notes

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hurricane, Mississippi
  2. ^ a b "Hurricane news for oct 6". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  3. ^ a b Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 689.
  4. ^ "Hurricane news". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
  5. ^ Center, Storm Prediction. "Storm Prediction Center Storm Reports Page". www.spc.noaa.gov.


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