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Jones County, Mississippi

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14historic places

—earliest paper

1826formed

67,246pop. 2020

124cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Laurel, Ellisville, Lanham.

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

7 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bynum-Anderson House	Ellisville	Building	2022
Deason, Amos, House	Ellisville	Building	1984
Evans House and Barn	Laurel	Building	2025
Fishtrap Bluff Fishweir	Ellisville	Structure	1997
G.W.O. Site	Lanham	Site	1999
Jones County Courthouse and Confederate Monument at Ellisville	Ellisville	Building	1994
Lamar Elementary School	Laurel	Building	2023
Laurel Central Historic District (Additional Documentation)	Laurel	District	1987
Laurel Central Historic District (Boundary Increase/Decrease)	Laurel	District	2021
Mason, William H. and Marian D., House	Laurel	Building	2017
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Depot	Laurel	Building	1995
Oak Park School Complex	Laurel	District	2020
Rogers, Newell, House	Laurel	Building	1987
Southside Neighborhood Historic District	Laurel	District	2020

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jones was formed in 1826 (1826-01-24) from Covington, Wayne.

JONES created from COVINGTON and WAYNE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Jones County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,471	1,258	3,323	3,828	17,846	32,919	49,227	57,235	59,542	61,912	64,958	67,246

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 124 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Anderson - Minter Cemetery	31.60579	-89.18119
Antioch Cemetery	31.77425	-89.31623
Antioch Cemetery	31.65349	-89.05116
Beech Cemetery	31.48294	-89.11616
Benson Cemetery	31.53614	-89.26414
Bethel Cemetery	31.78543	-88.95893
Big Creek Cemetery	31.6771	-89.30839
Blackledge Cemetery	31.76238	-88.96755
Brown Cemetery	31.55211	-89.15505
Brown Cemetery	31.44989	-88.96505
Bunker Hill Cemetery	None	None
Bynum Cemetery	31.60331	-89.18478
Calhoun Cemetery	31.69793	-89.20644
Callahan Cemetery	31.49537	-89.33069
Center Ridge Cemetery	31.75877	-89.36951
Centreville Cemetery	31.66044	-89.34117
Choctaw Cemetery	31.79654	-88.98949
Clark Cemetery	31.67571	-89.01699
Coats Cemetery	31.77408	-89.32412
Collins Cemetery	None	None
Coltins Cemetery	31.48647	-89.19515
County Line Cemetery	31.43433	-89.07033
County Line Cemetery	31.65127	-89.38756
Crosby Cemetery	31.54988	-89.32061
Crossroads Cemetery	31.56544	-89.3695
Currie Cemetery	31.62778	-89.14793
Dennis Blackledge Cemetery	31.68821	-88.96782
Eastabuchie Cemetery	31.43711	-89.28867
Edmonson Cemetery	31.47561	-89.29462
Ellisville Cemetery	31.59504	-89.19694
Ellzey Cemetery	31.64476	-89.30785
Ellzey Cemetery	None	None
Erratta Cemetery	31.76182	-89.05866
Fairchild Cemetery	31.48508	-89.27765
Fairfield Cemetery	31.54294	-89.35228
Fall Cemetery	31.73765	-89.03505
Fellowship Cemetery	None	None
Florence Cemetery	31.78988	-88.9906
Gandy Cemetery	31.57183	-89.30756
Geiger Cemetery	None	None
Giatana Cemetery	None	None
Harper Cemetery	31.74266	-89.32867
Hatton Cemetery	31.72682	-89.39784
Hebron Cemetery	31.70321	-89.36978
Hebron Lodge Cemetery	31.71043	-89.39061
Hickory Grove Cemetery	31.70632	-89.14334
Hill Cemetery	31.70682	-89.26589
Hinton Cemetery	31.6086	-89.25069
Hinton Cemetery	31.79099	-89.38006
Hoperville Cemetery	None	None
Hopewell Cemetery	31.49687	-89.30094
Indian Springs Cemetery	31.67536	-89.20658
Jack Knight Cemetery	31.71405	-89.39034
Johnson Cemetery	31.53377	-89.17061
Jordan Cemetery	31.56707	-89.26948
Jordan Cemetery	31.58295	-89.1892
Kirland Cemetery	31.46239	-89.19265
Knight Cemetery	31.46635	-89.29672
Knights Mill Cemetery	31.78404	-89.327
Lancaster Cemetery	31.47572	-89.06005
Lebanon Cemetery	31.71167	-89.23335
Matthews Cemetery	31.79432	-89.21839
May Cemetery	31.77849	-89.02616
McCann Cemetery	None	None
McGill Cemetery	31.81904	-89.01255
Memorial Park Cemetery	31.69747	-89.05051
Mill Creek Cemetery	31.69654	-88.96255
Mount Moriah Cemetery	31.55849	-89.08894
Mount Olive Cemetery	31.72293	-89.39145
Mount Olive Cemetery	31.74349	-89.05422
Mount Oral Cemetery	31.69637	-89.09592
Mount Vernon Cemetery	31.66504	-89.10999
Mount Zion Cemetery	31.6471	-89.24867
Murphy Cemetery	31.4999	-89.18973
Myrick Cemetery	31.65988	-88.99838
Napier Cemetery	None	None
New Bethany Cemetery	31.61821	-89.34867
Nora Davis Memorial Cemetery	31.72071	-89.08949
Odom Cemetery	31.51683	-89.12866
Old Antioch Cemetery	None	None

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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