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Midnight, Mississippi — Unincorporated community — 
Midnight, MississippiCoordinates: 33°02′58″N 90°34′24″W / 33.04944°N 90.57333°WCoordinates: 33°02′58″N 90°34′24″W / 33.04944°N 90.57333°W 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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Demographics
As of 2010 Midnight has fewer than 200 residents.[2]
Geography
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]
Government and infrastructure
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]
Education
Residents are zoned to the Humphreys County School District.
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Midnight, Mississippi
- ^ a b c d e f Bengali, Shashank. "Mississippi Delta: the land economic recovery never visits." McClatchy Newspapers. April 11, 2010. Retrieved on September 23, 2010.
- ^ "Postmaster Finder Post Offices by Discontinued Date." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on September 23, 2010. "10/05/2002 MIDNIGHT MS HUMPHREYS COUNTY 39115"
Municipalities and communities of Humphreys County, Mississippi Cities 
Towns Isola | Louise | Silver City
Unincorporated
communitiesMidnight
Midnight Mississippi is referenced in the 2000 film "Where the Heart Is"
Categories:- Populated places in Humphreys County, Mississippi
- Unincorporated communities in Mississippi
- Mississippi geography stubs
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