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1,555historic places
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82 counties have formation records (oldest: Adams County, 1799). 82 counties have decade population series. 12 counties have nearby NPS units. 21 counties are near ABPP Civil War study areas. 82 counties have GNIS places (6,568 cemeteries statewide in this extract).

See each county page for charts, formation parents, NPS sites, cemeteries, battlefields, and HMdb links.

Adams County 128 places
Alcorn County 22 places
Amite County 19 places
Attala County 20 places
Benton County 2 places
Bolivar County 17 places
Calhoun County 2 places
Carroll County 12 places
Chickasaw County 10 places
Choctaw County 5 places
Claiborne County 36 places
Clarke County 51 places
Clay County 30 places
Coahoma County 23 places
Copiah County 35 places
Covington County 3 places
DeSoto County 13 places
Forrest County 22 places
Franklin County 5 places
George County 1 places
Greene County 2 places
Grenada County 16 places
Hancock County 19 places
Harrison County 57 places
Hinds County 135 places
Holmes County 17 places
Humphreys County 6 places
Issaquena County 5 places
Itawamba County 1 places
Jackson County 71 places
Jasper County 5 places
Jefferson County 26 places
Jefferson Davis County 5 places
Jones County 14 places
Kemper County 6 places
Lafayette County 17 places
Lamar County 2 places
Lauderdale County 46 places
Lawrence County 31 places
Leake County 5 places
Lee County 29 places
Leflore County 39 places
Lincoln County 17 places
Lowndes County 35 places
Madison County 32 places
Marion County 11 places
Marshall County 22 places
Monroe County 39 places
Montgomery County 8 places
Neshoba County 7 places
Newton County 7 places
Noxubee County 13 places
Oktibbeha County 26 places
Panola County 28 places
Pearl River County 3 places
Perry County 2 places
Pike County 29 places
Pontotoc County 3 places
Prentiss County 1 places
Quitman County 5 places
Rankin County 15 places
Scott County 6 places
Sharkey County 8 places
Simpson County 3 places
Smith County 1 places
Stone County 1 places
Sunflower County 5 places
Tallahatchie County 11 places
Tate County 10 places
Tippah County 3 places
Tishomingo County 17 places
Tunica County 8 places
Union County 5 places
Walthall County 6 places
Warren County 80 places
Washington County 26 places
Wayne County 2 places
Webster County 3 places
Wilkinson County 19 places
Winston County 8 places
Yalobusha County 4 places
Yazoo County 16 places