Hub, Mississippi

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

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