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Waveland
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city in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Hancock
- Mayor
- Jay Trapani ( R )
- Total
- 8.63 sq mi (22.36 km )
- Land
- 8.49 sq mi (21.99 km )
- Water
- 0.14 sq mi (0.37 km )
- Elevation
- 20 ft (6.1 m)
- Density
- 849/sq mi (327.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 28-78200
- Website
- waveland .ms .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Waveland
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hancock County
- Population
- 7210
- Area
- 22.358091
- Elevation
- 5
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Image
- Waveland Elementary School, Waveland, MS.jpg
- Households
- 2977
- Dialing code
- 228
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- postal code
- 39576
- Commons category
- Waveland, Mississippi
- inception
- 1972-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.6599
- per capita income
- 28958
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Waveland (left) is west of Bay St. Louis, on the Gulf of Mexico.
Waveland is a city located in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States, on the Gulf of Mexico. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Waveland was incorporated in 1972. As of the 2020 census, Waveland had a population of 7,210. Waveland was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969, and by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waveland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.