McComb, Mississippi

McComb is a city in Pike County, Mississippi, about 80 miles south of Jackson, just off of Interstate 55. As of the 2020 census, 12,413 people lived there, nearly the same as in the 1980 census (12,331). It is the principal city of the McComb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. McComb was founded in 1872 after Henry Simpson McComb of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad (which would become the Illinois Central Railroad and now a part of the Canadian National Railway), decided to move the railroad's maintenance shops away from New Orleans, Louisiana, to avoid the New Orleans' saloons.

Singer Britney Spears was born in McComb.

References

Other websites
 Website about McComb 
 McComb Enterprise Journal Newspaper
 Map of McComb with links to local businesses
 McComb Police Department 
 McComb City Railroad Depot Museum
 Percy Quin State Park , six miles south of McComb

Category:Cities in Mississippi
Category:1872 establishments in the United States
Category:1870s establishments in Mississippi