Country United States County Humphreys ZIP code 39115 Elevation 34 m | State Mississippi Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6) Area code(s) 662 Local time Tuesday 2:26 PM | |
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Midnight is an unincorporated community located in Humphreys County, Mississippi. Midnight is approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Louise and 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Silver City along Mississippi Highway 149. Although Midnight is unincorporated, it has a zip code of 39115.
Contents
- Map of Midnight MS 39097 USA
- History
- Demographics
- Geography
- Government and infrastructure
- Education
- Notable people
- In popular culture
- References
Map of Midnight, MS 39097, USA
History
According to tradition, the original town site was won in a midnight poker hand, hence the name of the community.
A post office called Midnight was established in 1897. The post office building survived the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. On October 5, 2002 the Midnight post office closed. By 2010 it had been demolished as part of the USPS's service cuts.
In the 2000s, resident Gwen McKenzie and other Midnight residents lobbied to have a highway sign installed that indicated the direction to Midnight. In 2009 the streets in Midnight received names and numbers.
Demographics
As of 2010 Midnight has fewer than 200 residents.
Geography
Shashank Bengali of McClatchy Newspapers said that Midnight "feels like a place whose time has expired." Bengali explains that the clapboard houses, which were built almost one century before 2010, "rot on their cinder-block legs, tilting at crazy angles" and that Midnight's principal road is "dotted with abandoned or half-burned cabins that, older residents complain, young men disappear into to shoot dice or smoke pot as the days fade into dusk."
Government and infrastructure
Houses in Midnight did not have street addresses until 2009. Midnight does not have a sewage system. Shashank Bengali of McClatchy Newspapers says that Midnight's electricity is "spotty."
Education
Residents are zoned to the Humphreys County School District.
Notable people
In popular culture
In the 2000 film, Where the Heart Is, starring Natalie Portman, an older couple came from Midnight, Mississippi to reprimand Novalee for having her baby out of wedlock.