Welcome to Long Beach ...The city of Long Beach is located in Harrison County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Long Beach, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884. When the people of Long Beach refer to themselves (known as a demonym), they frequently use Long Beacher<2> A typical abbreviation for Long Beach: Long Bch. From the Census Estimates for 2019, Long Beach has a population of 15,992 people<3> (see below for details). Long Beach is near sea level<4>. Time Zone: Long Beach lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Long Beach: 228 The ZIP code for Long Beach: 39560<5> Population Details ...Taken from the 2019 Census Estimates, Long Beach had an population of 15,992 people. This is an increase of 8.11% since the 2010 Census (or a decrease of 7.67% since the 2000 Census). At the time of the 2010 Census, Long Beach had a population of 14,792 people (which is 7.87% of the total population of Harrison County). This makes Long Beach the county's 3rd most populous community. The population of Long Beach represents 0.5% of the population of Mississippi (which has 2,967,297 people), making it the state's 27th most populous community. With a 2010 count of 14,792 people, the population of Long Beach decreased 14.6% from the 2000 Census (which had a count of 17,320 people). More information can be found on the Census Page for Long Beach. Communities Also Named Long Beach ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 23 communities that are also named Long Beach - they are located in California, Indiana, Maine (2), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador (4), North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario (2) and Washington (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Long Beach. Websites for Long Beach ...Official Website: www.ci.long-beach.ms.us/ Communities near Long Beach ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Long Beach.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Long Beach. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Long Beach. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Long Beach. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Long Beach. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Long Beach. See our Newspapers Page for Long Beach. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Long Beach ...Looking for more information about Long Beach? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. In addition to the Tourism page for Long Beach, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Long Beach. Adding Long Beach to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Long Beach in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Long Beach was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> For more details, see References and Mentions for Long Beach. Footnotes ...
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