Welcome to Mount Pleasant ...
Although we found mention of Mount Pleasant during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Mount Pleasant was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..
While we are confident that Mount Pleasant was located in Itawamba County, we don't know its actual location within the county.
We've added Mount Pleasant to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Mount Pleasant - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Mount Pleasant, please Contact Us.
A typical abbreviation for Mount Pleasant: Mt. Pleasant
Time Zone: The area where we believe that Mount Pleasant might be (or was) located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
We believe that Mount Pleasant would be found within the (662) area code.
Communities Also Named Mount Pleasant ...
While we believe that this Mount Pleasant is located in Itawamba County, we know of another 4 Mississippi communities named Mount Pleasant. Those communities are located in the following counties: Covington, Marshall, Smith and Wilkinson County.
Beyond Mississippi, there are 157 communities that are also named Mount Pleasant - they are located in Alabama (5), Arkansas (6), British Columbia, California, Delaware, Florida (2), Georgia (7), Illinois (3), Indiana (6), Iowa, Kansas (4), Kentucky (2), Louisiana (3), Maryland (7), Massachusetts, Michigan (3), Missouri (4), New Brunswick, New Jersey (7), New York (5), North Carolina (10), Nova Scotia (5), Ohio (8), Ontario (8), Oregon, Pennsylvania (22), Prince Edward Island, Rhode Island, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Tennessee (6), Texas (4), Utah, Vermont, Virginia (9), Washington (2), West Virginia and Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mount Pleasant.
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Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Itawamba County: www.co.itawamba.ms.us/
The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Mount Pleasant and then turned west". While Mount Pleasant could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Mount Pleasant as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Mount Pleasant could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out. |