Kewanee, Mississippi
The Simmons & Wright Company in Kewanee
Kewanee is located in Mississippi
Kewanee
Kewanee
Kewanee is located in the United States
Kewanee
Kewanee
Coordinates: 32°25′27″N 88°26′18″W / 32.42417°N 88.43833°W / 32.42417; -88.43833
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyLauderdale
Elevation
282 ft (86 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)601 & 769
GNIS feature ID691977[1]

Kewanee is an unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.[1] Kewanee is located along U.S. Route 11 and U.S. Route 80 16 miles (26 km) east-northeast of Meridian.[2] The community is located on the former Alabama Great Southern Railroad and in 1900 had a population of 50 people.[3]

The community's name may be a transfer from Kewanee, Illinois.[4]

The Simmons & Wright Company, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Kewanee.

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Kewanee, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Lauderdale County, Mississippi General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
  3. Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 1001.
  4. Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.


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