Hub, Mississippi

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Hub is an unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States.

South of Hub is the Lower Little Creek, a tributary of the Pearl River.

Hub was never incorporated, and had a post office from 1899 to 1954.{{cite gnis|712281|Hub post office}}

A shortline logging railroad, constructed by Camp & Hinton Brothers in the 1880s, began in Hub and extended several miles south. The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, a mainline railroad, was built through Hub in 1899.{{cite web | title = Hub, Mississippi | publisher = Mississippi Rails | url = http://www.msrailroads.com/Towns/Hub.htm | accessdate = 22 March 2014}}

Hub once had two operating sawmills and had a population of 25 in 1900.{{cite book | last = Rowland | first = Dunbar | title = Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form | publisher = Southern Historical Publishing Association | year = 1907 | url = https://archive.org/details/mississippicomp01rowlgoog/page/n5 | volume = 1 | page = 891}}

In 1945, Humble Oil discovered the Hub Field. It eventually produced 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas and eight million barrels of oil.{{cite book |last1=Hughes |first1=Dudley J. |title=Oil in the Deep South |date=1993 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |location=Jackson, Mississippi |isbn=0-87805-615-7 |page=220 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uReuyS1KOJgC}} The California Oil Company and the Pan American Petroleum Corporation also operated wells in the Hub Field.{{cite journal |title=Appendix |journal=Federal Register |date=1963 |volume=28 |issue=158 |page=8334 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c0wrjIhWCYUC}}