Hurricane is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Pontotoc County,

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

, United States. It was originally called Esperanza, but the name changed due to being impacted by several severe storms.

History

The Esperanza Post Office was established in 1871 and continued into the early 1900s. The population in 1900 was 26. But sometime before 1900, the inhabitants began calling the community "Hurricane" after it was hit by a hurricane season storm from the Gulf of Mexico. The New Prospect Baptist Church, originally housed in a 1880s wood building, was renamed Hurricane Baptist in 1940 when a two-story brick building replaced the prior structure. On April 27, 2011, a tornado touched down in the Esperanza area as part of the

2011 Super Outbreak The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest, costliest, and one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded, taking place in the Southern, Midwestern, and Northeastern United States from April 25–28, 2011, leaving catastrophic destruction ...

, but apparently caused no damage.

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Unincorporated communities in Pontotoc County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{PontotocCountyMS-geo-stub