Pascagoula (Mississippi)
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 Location in Mississippi
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| State : | United States |
| State : | Mississippi |
| County : | Jackson County |
| Coordinates : | 30 ° 22 ′ N , 88 ° 33 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 26,200 (as of: 2000) |
| Population density : | 666.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 47.2 km 2 (approx. 18 mi 2 ) of which 39.3 km 2 (approx. 15 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 3 m |
| Area code : | +1 228 |
| FIPS : | 28-55360 |
| GNIS ID : | 675480 |
| Mayor : | Matthew Avara |
 Location on the Gulf of Mexico |
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Pascagoula is a city and the administrative seat of Jackson County , Mississippi in the United States . Pascagoula is the capital of the metropolitan region named after her Gulfport - Biloxi - Pascagoula. At the 2000 census , Pascagoula had 26,200 inhabitants.
Pascagoula is one of the most important industrial cities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast . Before the Second World War , the city was a sleepy fishing village with about 5000 inhabitants. The population literally exploded with the war-related settlement of the shipbuilding industry . Although at first it seemed as if the growth would have reached the city in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at its peak, than the military spending of the Cold War reached its peak, Pascagoula was new growth and development in the years before Hurricane Katrina recorded . Pascagoula is home to Mississippi's largest employer, Ingalls Shipbuilding , a shipyard owned by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems . Other major industries include one of Chevron's largest refineries in the United States, Signal International, a manufacturer of drilling and production platforms , and fertilizer manufacturer Mississippi Phosphates.
The United States Navy shipyard, formerly located on an island in the mouth of the Pascagoula River, closed in 2006.
sons and daughters of the town
- Jimmy Buffett (born 1946), country and pop singer
- Margie Joseph (* 1950), soul and R&B singer
- Tony Dees (* 1963), hurdle sprinter
- Erica Ellyson (* 1984), softcore model and actress
