Wool Market, Mississippi

Wool Market, Mississippi
Unincorporated community within Biloxi, Mississippi
former census designated place
Wool Market is located in Mississippi
Wool Market
Wool Market
Location within Mississippi
Wool Market is located in the United States
Wool Market
Wool Market
Location within the United States
Coordinates: 30°28′04″N 88°59′45″W / 30.46778°N 88.99583°W / 30.46778; -88.99583
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountyHarrison
Elevation
33 ft (10 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
39532
Area code228
GNIS feature ID1867334[1]

Wool Market (also Woolmarket) is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, Mississippi.[1] Wool Market is approximately 2.7 miles (4.3 km) northwest of Biloxi and part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area.

Historically, the settlement was called "Wool Market",[2][3] though presently, the one-word "Woolmarket" has been adopted, as can be observed at "Woolmarket Elementary School", and in official documents published by Harrison County government.[4][5]

A post office operated under the name Wool Market from 1889 to 1911 and under the name Woolmarket Rural Station from 1969 to 1982.[6]

The community was previously listed as a census designated place until it was annexed by the city of Biloxi, Mississippi prior to the 2000 U.S. census.[7]

Notable person

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wool Market
  2. ↑ Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi. Goodspeed. 1891. pp. 200.
  3. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 992.
  4. ↑ "Woolmarket Elementary School". Harrison County School District. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Community Plan for Western Harrison County" (PDF). Harrison County Board of Supervisors. February 1, 2008.
  6. ↑ "Harrison County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
  7. ↑ "2000 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Mississippi" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2025.
  8. ↑ Knight, Bill (June 21, 1998). "UTEP's Rushing Still 'Daddy's Girl'". El Paso Times. Retrieved March 15, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.


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