Wade, MS

Wade is a Jackson County census-designated place at the meeting of Mississippi Highways 63 and 614. MS 614 begins here and runs east toward Hurley and the Alabama line, while MS 63 points north toward Lucedale and south toward Pascagoula. That road pattern gives the community its local shape: Wade is a rural junction inside a county whose wider map includes the Pascagoula and Escatawpa river systems, forests, wetlands, and the Gulf Coast. The Jackson County School District serves Wade, tying the CDP’s daily map to the broader county system. The local shorthand is highway junction, county roads, Pascagoula orbit, and coastal-country geography.