Hurricane, Mississippi

Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States

34°21′2″N 89°09′29″W / 34.35056°N 89.15806°W / 34.35056; -89.15806^[a]CountryUnited StatesStateMississippiCountyPontotocElevation

364 ft (111 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)GNIS feature IDEsperanzaGNIS feature IDHurricane

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

^ The coordinates given are for the junction of Hurricane Road and Esperanza Road, the approximate center of the current community. This is between the GNIS coordinates for Esperanza and Hurricane.

References

^ "Feature Detail Report for: Esperanza, Mississippi." USGS. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hurricane, Mississippi Retrieved April 28, 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Hurricane news for oct 6". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
^ ^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.
^ "Hurricane news". Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
^ Center, Storm Prediction. "Storm Prediction Center Storm Reports Page". www.spc.noaa.gov.