Alcorn is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Claiborne County, Mississippi Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,135. Its county seat is Port Gibson. The county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territ ...

, United States. It is the common name given to sites without a name but are around or close to

Alcorn State University Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. ...

. Alcorn State University is officially in

Lorman, Mississippi Lorman is an unincorporated community located in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. Lorman is approximately north of Fayette, near Highway 61 on Mississippi Highway 552. Lorman is the nearest community to Alcorn State University ...

by zip code in

Jefferson County, Mississippi Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi; its western border is formed by the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,260, making it the fourth-least populous county in Mississippi. Until 182 ...

. A post office operated under the name Alcorn from 1906 to 1954. Alcorn is the location of four places listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

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Bethel Presbyterian Church Bethel Presbyterian Church may refer to: ;in Singapore * Bethel Presbyterian Church, Singapore ;in the United States * Bethel Presbyterian Church (Alcorn, Mississippi), listed on the NRHP in Mississippi * Bethel Presbyterian Church (Bay, Misso ...

* Canemount * Catledge Archeological Site * Oakland Chapel (on the Alcorn State University campus)

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Unincorporated communities in Claiborne County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi {{ClaiborneCountyMS-geo-stub