The Pine Belt , also known as the Piney Woods , is a region in Southeast Mississippi . The region gets its name from the longleaf pine trees that are abundant in the region. The Pine Belt includes 9 counties : Covington , Forrest , Greene , Jefferson Davis , Jones , Lamar , Marion , Perry , and Wayne .
6-605: Pine Belt may refer to: Pine Belt (Mississippi) , a region in southeastern Mississippi Pine Belt Southern Railroad , defunct railroad line in Alabama Pine Belt Arena , multi-purpose arena in Toms River, New Jersey Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pine Belt . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
12-634: The Gulf and Ship Island Railroad ; New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad ; and the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad . The Pine Belt's booming timber industry ended around 1930, when the virgin pine forests were depleted. As World War I raged in Europe, military training sites were being created throughout the United States. As part of that effort, one of those training sites was established in
18-479: The Pine Belt south of Hattiesburg in 1917. Over time, that training site transformed into Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center . Camp Shelby is the largest state owned military training facility in the U.S. and covers more than 134,000 acres (54,000 ha). As of 2020, Mississippi's Pine Belt had a population of 306,672 and an area of about 5,200 mi (13,400 km ). In the U.S. House of Representatives ,
24-660: The State of Mississippi. Yet, the vast longleaf pine resource in Mississippi's Pine Belt remained mostly undisturbed, because there was no efficient system for transporting cut timber to sawmills for processing into lumber. That changed in the late 1800s, when railroads were built throughout the Pine Belt. These railroads provided an inexpensive means for moving passengers as well as logs and lumber, and opened Mississippi's Pine Belt to both industrial growth and community development. Notable railway construction during this era included
30-639: The area that would later become the state of Mississippi was populated by several Native American tribes, including the Natchez and Pascagoula in the Pine Belt. The native population declined as a result of armed conflicts with the Europeans, attrition from diseases, or coalescence with other tribes. In 1817, the western portion of the Mississippi Territory was admitted to the Union as
36-408: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pine_Belt&oldid=662796806 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pine Belt (Mississippi) Before the arrival of Europeans ,
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