Long Beach, Mississippi Long Beach, Mississippi Location of Long Beach in Mississippi Location of Long Beach in Mississippi Long Beach, Mississippi is positioned in the US Long Beach, Mississippi - Long Beach, Mississippi Website City of Long Beach official website Long Beach is a town/city (incorporated August 10, 1905) positioned in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.4 square miles (26.9 km2), of which 10.0 square miles (25.9 km2) is territory and 0.39 square miles (1.0 km2), or 3.74% is water. Long Beach (map center) is east of Pass Christian and west of Gulfport, along the Gulf of Mexico The town/city of Long Beach is served by the Long Beach School District.
These campuses include Long Beach High School, Long Beach Middle School, Reeves Elementary School, Quarles Elementary School, and Harper Mc - Caughan Elementary School, rebuilt in a new locale after the previous school was finished by Hurricane Katrina.
Long Beach High has a long-standing tradition of excellence.
In 2007 Long Beach High School was titled a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S.
The Gulf Coast ground of the University of Southern Mississippi is positioned in Long Beach along Beach Boulevard.
Long Beach began as an agricultural town, based around its radish industry.
But on August 10, 1905, Long Beach incorporated and became another town/city on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Long Beach's early economy was based largely upon radishes.
A productive truck farming town in the early 20th century, people of Long Beach proclaimed the town/city to be the "Radish Capital of the World".
In 1921, a bumper crop resulted in the shipment of over 300 train loads of Long Beach's Long Red radishes to northern states. Eventually, the Long Red radishes for which Long Beach was known fell into disfavor, and the rise of the common button radish caused a dramatic diminish in the cultivation of this crop in the area. The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Long Beach shoreline Nineteen days following the city's centennial, Hurricane Katrina hit the town/city on August 29, 2005, destroying almost all buildings inside 500 meters (1,600 ft) of the Gulf of Mexico shoreline.[not in citation given] Many Long Beach inhabitants were left homeless or living in water and or wind damaged homes. The town/city of Long Beach, California, held a fund raiser to help its eponymous relative. The town/city of Peoria, Arizona, adopted Long Beach and provided both enhance and private resources.
However, the town/city has not seen a return of company to pre-Katrina levels due in part to building codes on the beach established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and to the economic downturn.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Long Beach city, Mississippi".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Long Beach city, Mississippi".
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Rosalie and Radishes: A history of Long Beach, Mississippi.
"Long Beach CARES: Long Beach, CA Helping Long Beach, MS".
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