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Forrest County, Mississippi

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22historic places

—earliest paper

1908formed

78,158pop. 2020

62cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 22 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Hattiesburg, Hattisburg, Fruitland Park.

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

13 of 22 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

22 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Beverly Drive-In Theatre	Hattiesburg	District	2008
Building 1071, Camp Shelby	Hattiesburg	Building	1997
Building 6981, Camp Shelby	Hattiesburg	Building	1992
Burkett's Creek Archeological Site	Hattiesburg	Site	2000
East Sixth Street USO Building	Hattiesburg	Building	2004
Eaton Elementary School	Hattiesburg	Building	2008
Hattiesburg Historic Neighborhood District	Hattiesburg	District	1980
Hub City Historic District	Hattiesburg	District	1980
Hub City Historic District (Boundary Increase II)	Hattiesburg	District	2012
Hub City Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Hattiesburg	District	2002
Meador Homestead	Hattisburg	Building	2010
New York, The	Fruitland Park	Building	1999
North Main Street Historic District	Hattiesburg	District	1993
Oaks Historic District	Hattiesburg	District	1993
Old Hattiesburg High School	Hattiesburg	Building	1987
Parkhaven Historic District	Hattiesburg	District	2002
Saenger Theatre	Hattiesburg	Building	1979
Tall Pines	Hattiesburg	Building	1980
Temple B'nai Israel	Hattiesburg	Building	2018
U.S. District Courthouse	Hattiesburg	Building	1973
U.S. Post Office	Hattiesburg	Building	1983
University of Southern Mississippi Historic District, The	Hattiesburg	District	2010

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Forrest was formed in 1908 (1908-01-06) from Perry.

FORREST created from PERRY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Forrest County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
20,722	21,238	34,901	45,055	52,722	66,018	72,604	78,158

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

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

Cemeteries — 62 of 62 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Anderson Cemetery	31.04308	-89.23488
Anderson Cemetery	31.1096	-89.28409
B'nai Israel Cemetery	31.33822	-89.34284
Barlow Cemetery	31.39552	-89.16215
Batson Cemetery	30.97452	-89.22851
Battson Cemetery	31.01702	-89.33327
Bennett Cemetery	31.34975	-89.32036
Brooklyn Cemetery	31.05541	-89.18551
Cameron Cemetery	31.07299	-89.29179
Chappell Cemetery	31.35938	-89.25834
Clark Cemetery	31.2488	-89.31353
Community Cemetery	31.26325	-89.27594
Davis Cemetery	30.96038	-89.28595
Dixie Baptist Church Cemetery	31.21481	-89.30468
Eaton Cemetery	31.42239	-89.33339
Edmonson Cemetery	31.41692	-89.40109
Enon Cemetery	31.24819	-89.23952
Entrekin Cemetery	30.98602	-89.30895
Epps Cemetery	31.13406	-89.20561
Eureka Cemetery	30.91805	-89.28116
Forrest Memorial Gardens	31.32174	-89.24954
Gillis Cemetery	31.28399	-89.25081
Granny Bounds Cemetery	31.0524	-89.24894
Grant Cemetery	31.37181	-89.23455
Heidelberg Cemetery	31.42142	-89.30223
Highland Cemetery	31.33736	-89.34116
Hillcrest Cemetery	31.34239	-89.247
Hudson Cemetery	31.37723	-89.3679
J E Bounds Memorial Cemetery	30.98344	-89.25247
Jenkins Cemetery	None	None
Jones Cemetery	31.35485	-89.34357
Jordan Cemetery	31.43275	-89.16882
Kelly Cemetery	31.41771	-89.29915
Lancaster Cemetery	30.9152	-89.29476
Lott Cemetery	31.39978	-89.39347
McDonalds Cemetery	None	None
McKenzie - Myers Cemetery	31.24231	-89.15743
McLaurin Cemetery	31.16661	-89.20607
Mineral Springs Cemetery	31.15628	-89.27802
Morriston Cemetery	31.41809	-89.19077
Mott Cemetery	None	None
Newman Cemetery	31.1349	-89.24894
Oaklawn Cemetery	31.326	-89.29783
Odoms Cemetery	31.40145	-89.18216
Old Leeville Cemetery	31.39663	-89.25687
Petal Cemetery	31.34434	-89.26672
Pine Grove Cemetery	31.26459	-89.17663
Pine Ridge Cemetery	31.30489	-89.31089
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	31.07659	-89.15027
Quick Cemetery	31.37603	-89.29747
Rawls Cemetery	31.41072	-89.37506
Rawls Springs Baptist Church Cemetery	31.37894	-89.37964
Riverview Cemetery	31.32434	-89.26894
Rock Hill Cemetery	31.08299	-89.31047
Rock Hill Church (historical)	31.09157	-89.29339
Roseland Park Cemetery	31.33762	-89.31131
Runnels Cemetery	31.40564	-89.17091
Saint Paul Cemetery	30.98204	-89.15483
Seal Cemetery	30.95937	-89.2644
Simmons Cemetery	31.05442	-89.27011
South Hill Cemetery	31.26365	-89.2749
William Burkett Cemetery	31.30649	-89.27812

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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