Lake Como, Mississippi

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Lake Como, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Lake Como
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Lake Como
Coordinates: 31°57′45″N89°12′45″W / 31.96250°N 89.21250°W / 31.96250; -89.21250
Country United States
State Mississippi
County Jasper
Elevation
344 ft (105 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 601 & 769
GNIS feature ID691993 [1]

Lake Como is an unincorporated community located in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. [1] Lake Como lies one mile east of Tallahoma Creek. [2]

A post office operated under the name Lake Como from 1859 to 1951. [3]

The founder of Bay Springs, L. L. Denson, moved there from Lake Como in the early 1900s. [4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Lake Como, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (PDF). Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 20.
  3. ↑ "Jasper County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Jasper County Municipalities". Jasper County, Mississippi. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
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