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Amite County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
19historic places
—earliest paper
1809formed
12,720pop. 2020
338cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 19 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Liberty, Centreville, Magnolia.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Mississippi is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Amite titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

15 of 19 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

19 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Amite County CourthouseLibertyBuilding1974
Amite Female SeminaryLibertyBuilding1980
Batchelor, Thomas, HouseLibertyBuilding1975
Bethany InstituteCentrevilleBuilding1978
Bethany Presbyterian ChurchCentrevilleBuilding2003
Butler, Decatur N., HouseLibertyBuilding1984
Felder-Richmond HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Lea, Hampton, HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Lea, Wilford Zachariah, HouseLibertyBuilding1995
Liberty Presbyterian ChurchLibertyBuilding1985
McGehee HouseLibertyBuilding1983
McGehee, Theodore L., Plantation HouseSummitBuilding1996
PinewoodLibertyBuilding1984
Sherman Line Rosenwald SchoolMagnoliaBuilding2017
Sturdivant FishweirRosettaSite1978
SunnyslopeCentrevilleBuilding1982
Webb, George, HouseLibertyBuilding1983
Westbrook Cotton GinLibertyBuilding2010
Wilkinson, Winston, HouseLibertyBuilding1980

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Amite was formed in 1809 (1809-02-24) from Wilkinson.

AMITE created by Mississippi Territory from WILKINSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Amite County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

23k14k4,7501810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,7506,8539,51112,33614,00420,70818,96021,89219,26115,57313,36913,59912,720

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

338 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 338 listed
NameLatLon
Agrippa Gayden Cemetery31.03017-90.8451
Amite River Cemetery31.02536-90.8309
Anderson Cemetery31.12017-91.02454
Anderson Cemetery31.06867-90.79232
Andrews Cemetery31.16267-90.76454
Antioch Cemetery31.05548-90.88616
Antioch Cemetery31.05595-90.88598
Antioch Cemetery31.1735-90.95343
B R Wilkinson Cemetery31.34628-90.86593
Barron Cemetery31.21491-90.61111
Bates Cemetery31.11489-90.71648
Bates Cemetery31.19585-90.79057
Bates-Felder Cemetery31.16184-90.73426
Bell Cemetery31.25267-90.79954
Benjamin Wall Cemetery31.02851-90.69759
Berryhill Cemetery31.32017-91.02871
Bethany Presbyterian Church Cemetery31.10209-90.98718
Bethel Cemetery31.07128-90.88149
Bethel Cemetery31.071-90.88121
Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery31.26162-90.84738
Bethlehem Cemetery31.10778-90.73035
Big Antioch Cemetery31.17405-90.95275
Boatner - McGehee Cemetery31.03718-91.0384
Bond Cemetery31.08628-90.59815
Bonds Cemetery31.19739-90.90621
Bostic Cemetery31.1368-90.66229
Brabham Cemetery31.11545-90.57204
Brandt Cemetery31.13017-91.01232
Browder Cemetery31.25906-90.80704
Brown Cemetery31.12378-90.84371
Brown Cemetery31.25961-91.00649
Brown Chapel Cemetery31.22218-90.6502
Brumfield-Whittington Cemetery31.17573-90.74232
Bryant - Harris Cemetery31.22017-90.95315
Bryant Cemetery31.15884-90.80855
Bullock Cemetery31.02956-90.55793
Burris Cemetery31.18711-90.63037
Butler - Martin Cemetery31.19444-90.63064
Butler - Short Cemetery31.25508-90.84477
Butler Cemetery31.23684-90.58176
Butler Cemetery31.25106-90.63264
Callender Cemetery31.07331-90.88339
Calvary Cemetery31.34196-90.72992
Campbellite Cemetery31.30989-91.01482
Carter - Powell Cemetery31.171-90.55176
Carter-Evans Cemetery31.02656-90.69398
Casey-Powell Cemetery31.05267-90.66537
Cassels Cemetery31.23234-90.99288
Caston Cemetery31.15434-90.99426
Causey Cemetery31.13557-90.77978
Cedar Grove Cemetery31.15649-90.80528
Cedar Grove Cemetery31.30585-90.90258
Cedar Grove Cemetery31.30572-90.9026
Centreville Cemetery31.09056-91.05818
Cheatham Children Cemetery31.16559-90.85772
Church of God Cemetery31.306-90.69371
Clayhill Cemetery31.30017-90.80287
Cockerham Cemetery31.14355-90.67251
Cockerham Cemetery31.10295-90.7026
Cook Cemetery31.171-90.55287
Cox Cemetery31.05788-90.80152
Crawford Cemetery31.05337-90.99382
Crosby Cemetery31.28683-91.06371
Cruise Cemetery31.33718-90.74639
Cupit Cemetery31.30184-90.68148
Damascus Cemetery31.1431-91.00184
Davis - Tucker Cemetery31.12462-90.84065
Davis Cemetery31.04323-90.78676
Dawson Cemetery31.28183-90.8876
Dier Cemetery31.31572-90.8876
Dixon Cemetery31.1135-90.78482
Dixon Cemetery31.11751-90.78694
Dixon Cemetery31.09628-90.99926
Dixon-McDowell Cemetery31.16184-90.76815
Duck Cemetery31.06598-90.86952
Duck Cemetery31.06444-90.8911
Duff Cemetery31.09047-90.86349
Dunn - Hefner Cemetery31.06073-90.89093
Durham Cemetery31.25933-90.86926
Easley Cemetery31.07878-90.59037

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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