Kewanee, Mississippi

Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States

Kewanee, Mississippi

Unincorporated community

The Simmons & Wright Company in Kewanee

Kewanee

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Coordinates: 32°25′27″N 88°26′18″W﻿ / ﻿32.42417°N 88.43833°W﻿ / 32.42417; -88.43833
Country| United States
State| Mississippi
County| Lauderdale
Elevation

| 282 ft (86 m)
Time zone| UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)| UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)| 601 & 769
GNIS feature ID| 691977[1]

Kewanee is an unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.[1] Kewanee is located along U.S. Route 11 and U.S. Route 80 16 miles (26 km) east-northeast of Meridian.[2] The community is located on the former Alabama Great Southern Railroad and in 1900 had a population of 50 people.[3]

The community's name may be a transfer from Kewanee, Illinois.[4]

The Simmons & Wright Company, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in Kewanee.

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1. ^ a b "Kewanee, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. ^ Lauderdale County, Mississippi General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Mississippi Department of Transportation. 2012. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
3. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1\. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 1001.
4. ^ Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 48\. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.

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