DeLisle () is a

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(CDP) in Harrison County,

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, United States. It is part of the Gulfport–

Biloxi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in and one of two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States (the other being the adjacent city of Gulfport). The 2010 United States Census recorded the population as 44,054 and in 2019 the estimated popu ...

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. The population was 1,147 at the 2010 census.

Geography

DeLisle is located at . It is located on the north side of DeLisle Bayou and the Wolf River, which separate the community from the city of

Pass Christian Pass Christian (), nicknamed The Pass, is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,307 at the 2019 census. History Pre-European history ...

. According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and , or 2.13%, is

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Settlement

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) or Sieur d'Iberville was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French ...

was chosen by

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, Louis XIV's minister of Marine, to establish a French colony in the area. On d'Iberville's second trip to the Gulf in 1699-1700, d'Iberville was accompanied by the accomplished royal cartographer, Compte

Guillaume Delisle Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, (; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas. Childhood and education Desli ...

. During this expedition, they charted and named Bayou Portage, Bayou Arcadia, and Bayou Delisle. The unincorporated area north of the bayou, known as DeLisle, shares a zip code with Pass Christian, Mississippi, but is not within the city limits. The early settlement was called La Riviere des Loups (Wolf River). The earliest verifiable records for the DeLisle area show that Barthelome Grelot was followed by his brother-in-law Philipe Saucier, who received two Spanish land grants; one in the St. Louis Bay area, recorded on August 27, 1781, followed in 1794, with a second tract that was situated on Bayou DeLisle, adjacent to his brother-in-law, Bartholome Grelot. These early French settlers were soon joined by Jean Baptiste Nicaise, Pierre Moran, Ramon Lizana, Chevalier DeDeaux, Jean Cassibry, and Charles Ladner. A post office operated under the name DeLisle from 1884 to 1974. DuPont opened a

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plant in DeLisle in 1979. This plant, now operated by

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, is the second-largest producer of titanium dioxide in the world.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the

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, there were 1,275 people, 440 households, and 304 families residing in the CDP.

Notable people

Beulah Mae Donald Beulah Mae Donald (October 10, 1920 – September 17, 1988) was an African-American woman who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan after her son, Michael Donald, was lynched. Early and personal life Donald was born on October 10, 1920 in DeLi ...

, Civil Rights activist *

Matteo Martinolich Matteo Martinolich (10 February 1860 - 23 December 1934) was an American master shipbuilder. He was the first to use Mississippi pine in the building of seagoing vessels, which was approved by the Marine Underwriters. Born in Mali Lošinj, Croatia ...

, shipbuilder *

Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward (born April 1, 1977) is an American novelist and a Professor of English at Tulane University, where she holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. She won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction for her second novel ...

, author; recipient of the 2011 and the 2017 National Book Awards for Fiction.

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Harrison County, Mississippi Census-designated places in Mississippi Gulfport–Biloxi metropolitan area