DeLisle () is a

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(CDP) in

Harrison County, Mississippi Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, Harrison County is the second-most populous county in Mississippi with a population of 208,621; although the most recent population estimate from 202 ...

, United States. It is part of the Gulfport–

Biloxi Biloxi ( ; ) is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States. It lies on the Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast in southern Mississippi, bordering the city of Gulfport, Mississippi, Gulfport to its west. The adjacent cities ar ...

Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,147 at the 2010 census.

History

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 Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, 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. 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.

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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.

Geography

DeLisle is located on the north side of DeLisle Bayou and the Wolf River, which separate the community from the city of Pass Christian. 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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Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,275 people, 440 households, and 304 families residing in the CDP.

Notable people

* Beulah Mae Donald, Civil Rights activist * Matteo Martinolich, shipbuilder * Jesmyn Ward, 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