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Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1906formed

11,321pop. 2020

196cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Prentiss, Bassfield.

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

3 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
1907 House	Prentiss	Building	1979
Holloway, John Fielding, House	Prentiss	Building	1994
Jefferson Davis County Courthouse	Prentiss	Building	1994
Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute Historic District	Prentiss	District	2016
Wilkes, Stephen H., House	Bassfield	Building	2006

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jefferson Davis was formed in 1906 (1906-06-04) from Covington, Lawrence.

By 4 June 1906, JEFFERSON DAVIS created from COVINGTON and LAWRENCE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
12,860	12,755	15,869	15,500	13,540	13,846	13,962	11,321

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

196 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 196 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams Cemetery	31.54155	-89.79396
Antioch Cemetery	31.59294	-89.78896
Armstrong Cemetery	31.58044	-89.97341
Armstrong Cemetery	31.70488	-89.90396
Barners Cemetery	31.44044	-89.77479
Barwick Cemetery	31.53155	-89.73396
Bass Cemetery	31.49878	-89.78757
Bass Cemetery	31.49016	-89.76479
Bass Cemetery	31.44378	-89.94091
Bass Cemetery	31.63988	-89.84202
Bass-Burkett Cemetery	31.48294	-89.76146
Bassfield City Cemetery	31.49146	-89.74716
Berry Cemetery	31.75932	-89.88507
Bethany Cemetery	31.58339	-89.88288
Blackburn-Carter Cemetery	31.44128	-89.70674
Blackwell Cemetery	31.48989	-89.90091
Blount Cemetery	31.55794	-89.79007
Bond Cemetery	31.44267	-89.72701
Booth Cemetery	31.52683	-89.70562
Bourne Cemetery	31.49211	-89.94369
Brady Cemetery	31.58081	-89.89841
Branton Cemetery	31.46767	-89.94119
Bridges Cemetery	31.68294	-89.84063
Brinson Cemetery	31.73516	-89.87229
Bryant Cemetery	31.66627	-89.81674
Buckley Cemetery	31.46433	-89.89146
Bullock Cemetery	31.57877	-89.88118
Burkett Cemetery	31.51489	-89.89952
Burkett Cemetery	31.53905	-89.89369
Burkett Cemetery	31.54377	-89.91452
Butler Cemetery	31.56905	-89.92869
Carson Cemetery	31.53433	-89.78952
Carter Cemetery	31.45767	-89.78452
Chance Cemetery	31.54148	-89.65639
Clear Springs Cemetery	31.50461	-89.84229
Cole Cemetery	31.5835	-89.92924
Cole Cemetery	31.75349	-89.8134
Cooper Cemetery	31.72683	-89.76563
Crossroads Cemetery	31.42072	-89.85646
Deen Cemetery	31.55377	-89.67618
Deen Cemetery	31.53627	-89.71924
Double Churches Cemetery	31.55502	-89.64828
Dublin Cemetery	31.55905	-89.84091
Durr Cemetery	31.65433	-89.86646
Ezekiel Loftin Cemetery	31.47215	-89.87482
Friendship Cemetery	31.49433	-89.84702
Galilee Cemetery	31.69016	-89.94869
Garner Cemetery	31.44378	-89.82285
Gholar Cemetery	31.66099	-89.94563
Graves Cemetery	31.56568	-89.70112
Graves Cemetery	31.56495	-89.72303
Graves Cemetery	31.56136	-89.72646
Gray Cemetery	31.52405	-89.63479
Green Grove Cemetery	31.61794	-89.87618
Greens Creek Cemetery	31.47544	-89.83007
Griffith Cemetery	31.64031	-89.80461
Griffith Cemetery	31.72738	-89.85479
Harper Cemetery	31.51155	-89.70007
Hartzog Cemetery	31.64377	-89.88257
Hathorn Cemetery	31.46544	-89.77702
Hathorn Cemetery	31.52044	-89.67284
Hathorn Cemetery	31.52711	-89.66229
Hawthorn Cemetery	31.50128	-89.71951
Hayes Cemetery	31.406	-89.91869
Hebron Cemetery	31.72044	-89.95702
Hemby Cemetery	31.7571	-89.84257
Hen Magee Cemetery	31.76571	-89.81368
Hill Cemetery	31.58488	-89.75535
Hollisday Cemetery	31.53683	-89.79813
Holloway Cemetery	31.56877	-89.77868
Holloway Cemetery	31.55905	-89.83979
Hopewell Cemetery	31.76905	-89.77785
Hutchens Cemetery	31.72516	-89.92841
Jordan Hill Cemetery	31.51683	-89.87313
King Cemetery	31.55266	-89.70868
King Cemetery	31.55516	-89.66701
King Cemetery	31.55127	-89.65812
King Cemetery	31.54516	-89.66646
Landmark Cemetery	31.47539	-89.80119
Lee Cemetery	31.6996	-89.88424

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Double Churches	31.55461	-89.64868
Haw Pond	31.5835	-89.7598
Old Bassfield	31.47795	-89.75841
Story	31.45017	-89.88425

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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