Editing Escatawpa, Mississippi (section)

==Geography==
The Escatawpa CDP is in eastern Jackson County on the east side of the [[Pascagoula River]]. It is bordered to the south by the city of Moss Point. The original community of Escatawpa, now a neighborhood in Moss Point, was centered just north of present-day [[Interstate 10 in Mississippi|Interstate 10]]. The current CDP is {{convert|5|mi|0}} north of the center of Moss Point and {{convert|9|mi|0}} north of [[Pascagoula, Mississippi|Pascagoula]], the Jackson [[county seat]]. [[Mississippi Highway 613]] is the main road through the center of Escatawpa, and four-lane [[Mississippi Highway 63]] forms the eastern edge of the community.

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the Escatawpa CDP has a total area of {{convert|17.9|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|17.3|km2|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|0.6|km2|order=flip|1}}, or 3.49%, are water.<ref name="Census 2010">{{Cite web| url=https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US2822900| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Escatawpa CDP, Mississippi| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| work=American Factfinder| access-date=August 8, 2018| archive-url=https://archive.today/20200213092659/https://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_SF1/G001/1600000US2822900| archive-date=February 13, 2020| url-status=dead}}</ref>