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Chickasaw County, Mississippi

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10historic places

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1836formed

17,106pop. 2020

42cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Houston, Okolona, Old Houlka.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bynum Mound and Village Site (22CS501)	Houston	Site	1989
Elliott-Donaldson House	Okolona	Building	1980
Houston Carnegie Library	Houston	Building	1978
Houston Historic District	Houston	District	2013
Judge Bates House	Houston	Building	1982
Merchants and Farmers Bank Building	Okolona	Building	1987
Okolona College	Okolona	District	2002
Okolona Historic District	Okolona	District	2002
Owl Creek Site	Old Houlka	Site	1975
Thelma Mound Archaeological Site	Houston	Structure	1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Chickasaw was formed in 1836 (1836-03-01) from Monroe.

CHICKASAW created from MONROE and Non-County Area 13 attached to CHOCTAW. Non-County Area 13 eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Chickasaw County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,955	16,426	17,905	19,892	22,212	21,427	18,951	16,891	17,853	19,440	17,106

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Natchez Trace Parkway	Park unit	4.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

42 cemeteries and 19 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 42 of 42 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Asbury Cemetery	33.96233	-88.91116
Bluff Springs Cemetery	34.02816	-88.927
Buena Vista Cemetery	33.88483	-88.83949
Chickasaw Memorial Gardens	33.87316	-88.96255
Citizens Cemetery	33.99893	-88.75475
Coleville Cemetery	None	None
Concord Cemetery	33.91677	-88.96394
Confederate Cemetery	33.99879	-88.75364
East County Line Cemetery	34.06691	-89.00786
Friendship Cemetery	33.76039	-89.08006
Gibbs Cemetery	33.89122	-88.91172
Halsey Cemetery	34.0676	-88.92978
Holladay Cemetery	34.0727	-89.00444
Hughes Cemetery	33.79178	-88.93672
Lake Cemetery	33.91233	-88.88061
Macedonia Cemetery	33.86205	-88.82477
Macedonia Cemetery	33.86316	-88.92172
McKinnon Cemetery	33.93622	-88.88449
Memory Gardens	34.0301	-88.75144
Midway Cemetery	33.82566	-89.13645
Morgan Cemetery	33.92177	-88.9045
Mount Moriah Cemetery	33.98677	-88.84144
Neal Cemetery	33.91927	-88.91894
New Hope Cemetery	33.76178	-89.04117
New Hope Cemetery	33.84039	-88.87894
Oak Grove Cemetery	33.76928	-88.96533
Old Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.78122	-89.14562
Pask Cemetery	33.94177	-88.90672
Patterson Cemetery	33.81511	-88.73643
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.77455	-89.13589
Pleasant Plain Cemetery	33.81233	-88.79255
Pulliam Cemetery	33.87955	-88.8306
Reid Cemetery	33.9876	-88.99339
Rose Hill Cemetery	34.03233	-88.99617
Ross Hill Cemetery	33.98066	-88.95005
Snow Cemetery	33.89094	-88.7706
Soul Chapel Cemetery	33.83205	-88.80533
Thornton Cemetery	33.86983	-88.82505
Weaver Cemetery	33.84344	-89.00033
Williams Cemetery	33.95899	-88.977
Woodland Cemetery	33.77261	-89.03672
Zion Spring Cemetery	33.85316	-88.75032

Historical populated places — 19 of 19

Name	Lat	Lon
Bacon	33.98539	-88.84033
Bethel	33.84956	-89.00173
Bowles	33.82511	-89.13673
Chalk Bluff	33.92845	-88.77339
Coleville	34.03761	-88.88617
Congress	33.76095	-89.08201
Elize	33.84095	-88.90006
Hickory Flat	34.01844	-88.877
Neals	33.95844	-88.92728
New York	33.92095	-88.88922
Newport	33.90678	-88.76172
Oak Grove	34.04483	-89.06951
Pikeville	33.89511	-88.77366
Prairie Mount	34.04733	-88.82505
Prospect	33.85761	-88.95145
Ridge	33.98761	-89.00839
Salem	33.92983	-88.89728
Shake Rag	34.00206	-88.82505
Sycamore	33.91317	-88.88006

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

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Okolona	3,703	18.1 km	MS013

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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