Lake Como, Mississippi

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Lake Como, Mississippi
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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.