Fruitland Park, Mississippi

Fruitland Park, Mississippi
Fruitland Park, Mississippi
	Unincorporated community
	Fruitland Park Location within the state of Mississippi
	Coordinates: 30°54′58″N89°10′16″W / 30.91611°N 89.17111°W Coordinates: 30°54′58″N89°10′16″W / 30.91611°N 89.17111°W
Country	United States
State	Mississippi
County	Forrest
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
GNIS feature ID	693273 [1]

Last updated April 02, 2019

Fruitland Park is a small unincorporated community in southern Forrest County, Mississippi. It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. Camp Tiak, a Boy Scouts of America camp with a one-mile educational forest trail, is located in Fruitland Park.^[2]

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.

Forrest County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the population was 74,934. Its county seat and largest city is Hattiesburg. The county was created from Perry County in 1908 and named in honor of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Forrest County is part of the Hattiesburg, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Mississippi is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 167,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.

History

The land that Fruitland Park occupies was previously owned by the J. E. North Lumber Company. The F. B. Mills Farm Company of Syracuse, New York bought the land in 1913 for the purpose of growing figs. The area eventually became a fruit and trucking center.

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Education

Forrest County Agricultural High School
South Forrest Attendance Center (K-8)

Forrest County Agricultural High School(FCAHS) is a public, secondary school in Brooklyn, Mississippi (USA). The school provides education to grades 9-12.

Transportation

Fruitland Park is served by U.S. Route 49, which runs north-south through Mississippi and Arkansas.

U.S. Route 49 is a north–south United States highway. The highway's northern terminus is in Piggott, Arkansas, at an intersection with US Route 62/Highway 1/Highway 139 (US 62/AR 1/AR 139). Its southern terminus is in Gulfport, Mississippi, at an intersection with U.S. Route 90. US 49 is approximately 516 miles (830 km) in length.

Arkansas is a state in the southern region of the United States, home to over 3 million people as of 2018. Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin, the Quapaw Indians. The state's diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains, which make up the U.S. Interior Highlands, to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands, to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta.

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References

External links

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[gnis-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fruitland Park, Mississippi

[2] American Forest Foundation: Mississippi Educational Forest Trail

v t e Municipalities and communities of Forrest County, Mississippi, United States
County seat: Hattiesburg
Cities	Hattiesburg‡ Petal	Map of Mississippi highlighting Forrest County
CDPs	Glendale Rawls Springs
Other unincorporated communities	Brooklyn Carnes Fruitland Park McLaurin
Ghost towns	Riverside
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties