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Diamondhead is a city in southeastern Hancock County, Mississippi, United States. The city is located just higher than 50 miles (80 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is allocation of the Gulfport−Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area. In February 2012, Diamondhead was officially incorporated as a city. In the 2020 USA decennial census, the city population was 9,529.

On October 25, 1961, NASA announced the formation of the Mississippi Test Facility, now the John C. Stennis Space Center. The center would be located in an area bordering the Pearl River in Hancock County. During and later than the construction of the facility, an influx of paperwork workers, contractors, and their families moved into the area.

Much of the estate that became Diamondhead had been purchased by Walter Gex Sr., in 1937 from the Gulf State Paper Company and the Easy Opener Bag Company. Additional house was purchased by Gex, bringing his acquisition to nearly 5,000 acres (2,000 ha). In the late 1960s, D.E.A.R., Inc., later known as the Diamondhead Corporation, a large corporation eager in resort developments, began operations upon the Mississippi Coast, with Diamondhead as its first project. Coastal Mississippi had been a popular trip destination for years, particularly taking into account Midwesterners. Its location was ideal as a second house development firm the convenient permission via Interstate 55. The land upon which Diamondhead is located is the highest tapering off of elevation (100 feet (30 m) above sea level) on the Gulf Coast in Mississippi. Therefore, the project was named “Diamondhead” after Diamond Head, an iconic volcanic cone upon the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Plans for the largest resort-type community in the southern United States were unveiled at a press conference in 1969. Hawaiian-style architecture, landscape, and road names were featured in the development. The company became enthusiastic in purchasing 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of property adjacent to Interstate 10, which was yet under construction in the Mississippi Coast Place in the 1960s. The increase would be located north of the Bay of Saint Louis, with 2 miles (3 km) of shoreline along the recess and 9 miles (14 km) of shoreline on the Jourdan River and Rotten Bayou. An interchange upon I-10 would be located close the middle of the development. When completed, Diamondhead was expected to represent a sum investment cost of $10 million.