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Lamar County, Mississippi

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2historic places

—earliest paper

1904formed

64,222pop. 2020

51cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1981. Most listings are in or near Sumrall, Lumberton.

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

1 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Municipal Courtroon and Jail, Old	Sumrall	Building	2000
U.S. Post Office	Lumberton	Building	1981

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lamar was formed in 1904 (1904-03-30) from Marion, Pearl River.

LAMAR created from MARION and PEARL RIVER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,741	12,869	12,096	13,225	13,675	23,821	39,070	64,222

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

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

Cemeteries — 51 of 51 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Baxterville Cemetery	31.09228	-89.6034
Bay Creek Cemetery	31.17319	-89.57358
Bellvue Cemetery	31.31355	-89.46994
Boone Cemetery	31.20406	-89.38478
Bounds Cemetery	31.23684	-89.43673
Buchanan Cemetery	31.33185	-89.61678
Byrd Cemetery	31.41959	-89.50902
Clinton Cemetery	31.40431	-89.46522
Coal Town Cemetery	31.15279	-89.43312
Corinth Cemetery	31.11851	-89.467
Entrekin Cemetery	31.15888	-89.48188
Fairview Cemetery	31.40396	-89.59056
Fillingame Cemetery	31.14984	-89.4055
Forest Memorial Park	31.30383	-89.37502
Grantham Cemetery	31.28267	-89.44506
Hartfield Cemetery	31.20239	-89.44368
Hartfield Cemetery	31.29981	-89.3737
Hickory Grove Cemetery	31.38316	-89.63819
Howard Cemetery	31.05457	-89.6365
Jones Cemetery	31.40346	-89.5905
King Cemetery	31.3933	-89.5783
Lee Cemetery	31.22198	-89.44861
Little Black Creek Cemetery	31.03212	-89.46395
Lumberton City Cemetery	30.99823	-89.45645
Magnolia Memorial Gardens	31.32042	-89.36991
Martin - Lott Cemetery	31.35714	-89.60462
Midway Cemetery Number One	31.28713	-89.53079
Midway Cemetery Number Three	31.28514	-89.53175
Midway Cemetery Number Two	31.2849	-89.53119
Myrtle Grove Cemetery	31.0473	-89.60365
Nelson Cemetery	31.24168	-89.47629
Oak Grove Cemetery	31.28782	-89.41409
Old Eaton Cemetery	31.33129	-89.41445
Old Rocky Branch Cemetery	31.31364	-89.64246
Oloh Cemetery	31.29216	-89.58469
Oral Cemetery	31.35065	-89.49802
Pine Grove Cemetery	31.18812	-89.48176
Purvis Cemetery	31.13635	-89.40909
Rawles Cemetery	31.35128	-89.46867
Richburg Baptist Church Cemetery	31.28641	-89.36024
Richburg Cemetery	31.27619	-89.35321
Russell Cemetery	31.36938	-89.59654
Samuel Slade Cemetery	31.01745	-89.44088
Seneca Cemetery	31.03977	-89.44076
Slade Cemetery	31.33177	-89.61552
Slade Cemetery	31.01896	-89.44244
Slade Cemetery	31.07728	-89.35945
Talowah Cemetery	31.08247	-89.43027
Union Grove Cemetery	31.06889	-89.38333
Watts Cemetery	31.33473	-89.64575
Williamson Cemetery	31.42137	-89.63981

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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