Hub is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.
Hub, Mississippi | |
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  Hub  Hub | |
| Coordinates: 31°8′44″N 89°45′00″W / 31.14556°N 89.75000°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Marion |
| Elevation | 144 ft (44 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 691947[1] |
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
edit- ^ "Hub". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Hub post office". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Hub, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Hughes, Dudley J. (1993). Oil in the Deep South. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 220. ISBN 0-87805-615-7.
- ^ "Appendix". Federal Register. 28 (158): 8334. 1963.
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