Bond, Mississippi
unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi
Bond is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in northern Stone County, Mississippi, United States. The community is situated approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Wiggins on U.S. Route 49, and is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 506.
History
Bond developed as a timber and sawmill community, and was home to J.E. North Lumber Company from 1899 to 1910. The lumber company's sawmill was located near the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, which operated between Gulfport and Jackson, Mississippi. At its peak, the J.E. North sawmill produced 60,000 board feet of lumber per day, but went into receivership during the Panic of 1907, and was sold in 1910, forming the Bond Lumber Company.
Under new ownership, the sawmill increased production of lumber to 150,000 board feet per day. In 1915, L.N. Dantzler Lumber Company purchased the mill, but ceased operation there in 1919, as the supply of virgin pines was exhausted. In 1920, the Bond sawmill was dismantled and sold to General Equipment Company, of New Orleans, Louisiana.
By 1907, the Bond community had several stores and churches, a post office, a public school, and a bank.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bond, Mississippi” is unincorporated community in Stone County, Mississippi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bond, Mississippi and unincorporated, not as a finished interpretation.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4941262. Authority coordinates are 30.900, -89.169. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1899, 1910 and 1907.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bond, Mississippi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.