Pascagoula, Mississippi

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, founder of the colony of Louisiana, left a more detailed account from an expedition of this region in 1700.

At one point, for 74 days in 1810, Pascagoula was a part of what was known as the Republic of West Florida.

It came into the permanent possession of the United States in 1812, when it was added to the Mississippi Territory.

Today's downtown Pascagoula used to be the town of Scranton, Mississippi, incorporated in 1870.

Resurrection Catholic School is a parochial school for prekindergarten to grade 12, established in 1882.

Pascagoula was incorporated as a village in 1892.

It obtained city status in 1901.

The two towns merged in 1904 by governor's proclamation and in 1912 by Mississippi legislative act.

Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture, later called the Section of Fine Arts, of the Treasury Department.

== Points of interest == The United States post office in Pascagoula contains a mural, Legend of the Singing River, painted in 1939 by Lorin Thompson.

Harkey Jr., editor and publisher of Pascagoula Chronicle, won Pulitzer Prize for courageous editorials devoted to processes of law and reason during integration crisis in Missis...

In October 1973, an alleged unidentified flying object sighting and alien abduction is said to have occurred when co-workers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed they were ...

=== 2000 census === As of the 2000 census, 26,200 people, 9,878 households, and 6,726 families were living in the city.

=== Hurricane Katrina === On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's 20-foot (6.1 m) storm surge devastated Pascagoula, much like Biloxi and Gulfport and the rest of the Mississip...

In 2010, it was reinstalled at the new Pascagoula post office on Jackson Avenue.

In June 2019, Pascagoula placed a historical marker near the alleged abduction site.

== Demographics == === 2020 census === In the 2020 United States census, 22,010 people, 8,415 households, and 4,865 families were residing in the city.

The hottest temperature recorded in Pascagoula was 106 °F (41.1 °C) on August 26, 2023, while the coldest temperature recorded was 16 °F (−8.9 °C) on January 30, 2014.

Amtrak service also began serving the city when the Mardi Gras Service debuted on August 18, 2025.