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Holmes County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
17historic places
—earliest paper
1833formed
17,000pop. 2020
132cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Lexington, Pickens, Tchula.

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 Holmes titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Acona Church, Cemetery, and SchoolLexingtonBuilding2002
Clark, Mollie, HousePickensBuilding1980
Clifton Plantation HouseHowardBuilding1985
Cowsert, Joe, Place Site (22HO507)GoodmanSite1987
Durant Illinois Central Railroad DepotDurantBuilding2016
Eureka Masonic CollegeRichlandBuilding1970
French Site (22HO565)CrugerSite1986
Holmes County Courthouse ComplexLexingtonDistrict1994
Holmes County State ParkDurrantDistrict1997
Lee, Frances, Mound Group (22HO654) NHLTchulaSite1988
Lexington Historic DistrictLexingtonDistrict2001
Noel, Gov. Edmund F., HouseLexingtonBuilding1999
Old Hoover Place Site (22HO502)PickensSite1987
Oswego Site (22HO658)TchulaSite1988
Providence Mound (22HO609)LexingtonSite1987
Tye HousePickensBuilding1979
West Historic DistrictWestDistrict1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Holmes was formed in 1833 (1833-05-06) from Yazoo.

HOLMES created from YAZOO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

40k25k9,4521840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
9,45217,79127,16436,82834,51339,71033,30127,09622,97021,60917,000

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 132 listed
NameLatLon
Acona Methodist Cemetery33.26824-90.01913
Albino Cemetery33.21345-90.23147
Bailey Cemetery33.24345-89.9973
Barksdale Cemetery33.11957-89.89813
Beall-Stigler Cemetery33.23817-90.05147
Bethesda Cemetery33.13679-89.94675
Bethlehem Cemetery32.93401-89.94813
Boatwright Cemetery33.11123-90.12786
Boyd Cemetery33.18262-89.99036
Brantley Cemetery32.99429-90.17397
Brister Cemetery33.13429-89.82063
Brister Cemetery33.12707-89.95119
Brooks Cemetery33.09123-90.34453
Broughman Cemetery33.1929-90.13758
Buck Cemetery33.07512-90.06202
Bush Cemetery33.10373-89.88091
Calvary Cemetery33.21456-90.14008
Central Cemetery32.9254-90.01897
Clifton Cemetery33.13595-90.18341
County Line Cemetery33.22623-89.83063
Coxburg Cemetery32.99929-90.21008
Crawford Cemetery33.17234-89.83952
Cunliff Cemetery33.19234-90.16758
Damascus Cemetery33.03568-89.89702
Dixon Cemetery33.24901-90.02397
Downer Cemetery33.22901-89.92675
Durant Cemetery33.06373-89.86952
Durant Cemetery33.06707-89.85841
Durham Cemetery33.05012-89.97758
Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery32.97551-90.08942
Ebenezer Methodist Church Cemetery32.97457-90.08758
Emory Cemetery33.2604-89.92063
Emory Cemetery33.25373-89.9173
Eubanks Cemetery33.13957-89.9123
Falls Cemetery32.95374-89.97452
Franklin Cemetery33.0329-89.99425
Gages Springs Cemetery33.05457-89.95925
Good Hope Cemetery33.08151-90.31175
Good Hope Cemetery33.09484-90.30425
Green Cemetery32.98957-89.91397
Green Cemetery33.19318-89.93786
Gulledge Cemetery33.02568-89.89813
Hall Cemetery33.21345-89.91952
Harlands Creek Baptist Church Cemetery32.99415-90.15902
Hebron Cemetery33.06734-90.13564
Hickory Springs Church Cemetery33.04739-90.06077
Hillcrest Cemetery32.97485-89.91147
Hines Memorial Cemetery33.29373-90.07841
Hodges Cemetery33.13068-90.04786
Holly Grove Cemetery33.29012-90.08952
Hooker Cemetery33.19734-89.95397
Hopewell Cemetery32.92957-90.06258
Horring Cemetery33.17429-90.05341
Jenkins Cemetery33.16762-89.97536
Johnson Cemetery33.15956-90.18397
Johnson Cemetery33.2154-90.04147
Jordan Bailey Cemetery33.23456-90.03258
Keirn Cemetery33.26179-90.06758
Lennard Cemetery33.30595-90.26175
Liberty Grove Cemetery33.09068-90.10841
Liberty Hill Cemetery33.03061-90.07415
Macedonia Cemetery33.03262-89.92591
Malone Cemetery33.00735-90.17314
Marcella Cemetery33.13345-90.3198
McGee Cemetery33.16262-89.90702
Megee Cemetery33.17512-89.93591
Meggs Cemetery33.00985-90.12841
Melton Cemetery33.22734-89.99702
Melton Cemetery33.1154-89.85119
Montgomery Cemetery33.18234-89.96091
Moore Family Cemetery32.91455-89.9639
Moorehead Cemetery33.16345-89.85869
Mount Olive Cemetery33.22901-90.10563
Mount Pleasant Cemetery33.23512-89.87924
New Zion Cemetery33.21734-90.22091
Oak Grove Cemetery33.04568-90.21703
Oak Grove Cemetery33.09234-90.07008
Odd Fellows Cemetery33.11732-90.03396
Old Rankin Cemetery33.11318-90.1873
Olive Cemetery33.18818-90.06008

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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