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Our City’s location within
the Memphis Metropolitan Area (MMA) provides many employment
opportunities. Although the majority of our jobs consist of government
and service sector jobs, our location to Memphis, Tennessee as well as
the other cities within DeSoto County, Mississippi provide residents
with a wide-range of jobs as attested to Horn Lake’s unemployment rate
of 4.0. Horn Lake has experience an increase of 42% in population from
9,069 in 1990 to 21,764 in 2004.
The awakening with Horn Lake’s growth
occurred in 1963 when Dover Elevator Corporation bought land on which to
relocate one of the world’s largest elevator plants, which employed
approximately 600. In 1968, Flavorite, a good products company, opened
for business in the vicinity. Today, it is known as Newly Weds.
Due to the city’s sophisticated travel
network of Interstate, State and local highway systems meets the
requirements of the residents and businesses of Horn Lake and provide
modern highway access to all points across the Southeast and the
Nation.
By highway, Horn Lake
adjoins Interstate 55, which connects to Interstates 40 and 20.
Highways 51 and 302 are five lane crossroads in the city that tie or
cross Interstate 55. An estimated ninety-four trucking lines serve the
Memphis Commercial Trucking Zone, Horn Lake and DeSoto County.
By air, Horn Lake is well
served by the Olive Branch Airport, which can accommodate small
executive jet aircraft, and the Memphis International Airport, only a
ten-minute drive away is used by most commercial airlines and is a major
cargo distribution hub.
By water, the River Port
of Memphis, the largest inland port on the Mississippi River is the most
cost efficient means of transporting bulk goods and commodities to both
domestic and foreign markets.
By rail, Horn Lake is
served directly by the Illinois Central and Burlington Northern
Railroads. In addition, four other lines serve Memphis, with terminals
only 15 minutes away.
Today, through City and
Community leadership the citizens of Horn Lake enjoy a mix of business
opportunity and pleasure where residents can grow, prosper, and worship
together while taking pride in the community’s quality of education,
recreation and industry.
The City of Horn Lake
invites you and your family to discover for yourself why Horn Lake is a
“Community with New People and New Ideas”.
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