Success, Mississippi

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Success, Mississippi
Ghost town
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Coordinates: 32°12′10″N89°17′00″W / 32.20278°N 89.28333°W / 32.20278; -89.28333
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of Mississippi.svg Mississippi
County Jasper
Elevation
120 m (390 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID705253 [1]

Success is a ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi, United States. [1]

Success had a post office in the early 1900s. [2]

The Success Cemetery is extant and located at the Decider Baptist Church, northwest of the settlement. [3]

The former settlement is now located within the Bienville National Forest.

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Success (historical)
  2. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 747.
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Decedar Baptist Church Cemetery


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