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Midnight, Mississippi
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Coordinates: | |
Country | United States |
State | Mississippi |
County | Humphreys |
Elevation | 112 ft (34 m) |
Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
• Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
ZIP code | 39115 |
Area code(s) | 662 |
GNIS feature ID | 673539[1] |
Midnight is an unincorporated community located in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States. 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.
In the 2000s a resident named 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.[2]
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As of 2010 Midnight has fewer than 200 residents.[2]
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."[2]
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."[2]
Midnight once had a small United States Postal Service (USPS) post office that had survived the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.[2] On October 5, 2002 the Midnight Post Office closed.[3] By 2010 it had been demolished as part of the USPS's service cuts.[2]
Residents are zoned to the Humphreys County School District.
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Midnight Mississippi is referenced in the 2000 film "Where the Heart Is"