Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 10931
Land area (2000): 15.175987 sq. miles (39.305624 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.046714 sq. miles (7.890953 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 18.222701 sq. miles (47.196577 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55360
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 30.363656 N, 88.542041 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39567 39581
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pascagoula
Wikipedia
The Pasacagoula (also Pascoboula, Pacha-Ogoula, Pascagola, Pascaboula, Paskaguna) were an indigenous group living in coastal Mississippi on the Pascagoula River.
The name Pascagoula is a Mobilian Jargon term meaning "bread people". Choctaw native Americans using the name Pascagoula are named after the words for "bread nation". The Biloxi called them Pascoboula.
Pascagoula may refer to:
- Pascagoula people – a group indigenous to Mississippi
- Pascagoula, Mississippi – a city in the United States
- Pascagoula metropolitan area
- Pascagoula River – a river in Mississippi
- Pascagoula Parish, Louisiana - a former parish of the Territory of Orleans
Usage examples of "pascagoula".
That weird combination of Graham Wisner and the Pascagoula Hardwood Company and Dan Morine of The Nature Conservancy, along with Avery Wood of the Mississippi Game and Fish Department, they prodded the state into setting up the Mississippi Wildlife Heritage Committee.
The Newport News, Virginia and Pascagoula, Mississippi shipyards were repaired and rebuilt ahead of schedule.
Slowly, up and down Highway 90, past the hotels and casinos and boat docks, from Pass Christian to Pascagoula he had driven, sipping beer and expanding the scheme.