Kokomo, MS

Kokomo is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Marion County, Mississippi, United States. The 2020 census counted 150 residents. The community was named after Kokomo, Indiana. Kokomo was organized by the family of Phillip Enoch of Fernwood, Mississippi, around 1912. Marion County is in the service area of Pearl River Community College. Kokomo's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Mississippi setting. The local scoop is how Kokomo's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Kokomo is in western Marion County, with U.S. Route 98 forming its southern border. US 98 leads northeast 11 miles to Columbia, the Marion county seat, and southwest 10 miles to Tylertown. Kokomo is home to a turpentine distillery, blacksmith shops, café, barbershop, grocery stores, gristmills.