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Leake County, Mississippi

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1833formed

21,275pop. 2020

120cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Carthage, Kosciusko.

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 Leake titles at the Library of Congress.

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
Carthage Historic District	Carthage	District	2012
Jordan House	Carthage	Building	1982
Robinson Road (190-191-3M)	Kosciusko	Structure	1976
Steep Mound Site (22LK26)	Carthage	Site	1987
U.S. Post Office	Carthage	Building	1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Leake was formed in 1833 (1833-12-23) from Madison, Rankin.

LEAKE created from MADISON and RANKIN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,162	9,324	13,146	17,360	16,973	24,570	21,610	18,660	18,790	20,940	21,275

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 120 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Addy Ann Cemetery	None	None
Antioch Cemetery	32.82568	-89.38617
Arthur Cemetery	None	None
Atkins Cemetery	32.84874	-89.4934
Atkins Cemetery	None	None
Baff Cemetery	None	None
Barnett Memorial Garden	32.66874	-89.37978
Beckham Cemetery	None	None
Beeman Cemetery	None	None
Bethel Cemetery	32.81068	-89.56396
Bethel Cemetery	32.91957	-89.38229
Big Spring Cemetery	32.89263	-89.52257
Blocker Cemetery	None	None
Britt Cemetery	32.58791	-89.40673
Cedar Grove Cemetery	32.64967	-89.61372
Collier Cemetery	None	None
Collier Cemetery	None	None
Conway Cemetery	None	None
County Line Cemetery	None	None
Cox Cemetery	None	None
Crawford Cemetery	None	None
Damascus Cemetery	32.83402	-89.70896
Delita Cemetery	None	None
Dew Cemetery	None	None
Dorsey Cemetery	32.91457	-89.51062
Dorsey Cemetery	None	None
Dumas Cemetery (historical)	32.66486	-89.6098
Ebenezer Cemetery	32.75791	-89.35034
Ebenezer Cemetery	32.89124	-89.3559
Edwards Cemetery	None	None
Forest Grove Cemetery	32.72902	-89.71202
Freeny Cemetery	32.70485	-89.48117
Fryer Cemetery	None	None
Fuston Cemetery	32.60569	-89.45395
Galilee Cemetery	32.72541	-89.40895
Good Hope Cemetery	32.62874	-89.63035
Goshen Cemetery	32.75957	-89.49006
Graves Cemetery	None	None
Gray Cemetery	32.7643	-89.44062
Gray Cemetery	None	None
Greenwood Cemetery	32.71652	-89.71341
Harmony Cemetery	32.60291	-89.59423
Harrell Cemetery	32.80513	-89.47812
Harris Cemetery	None	None
High Hill Cemetery	32.62402	-89.31812
Hopewell Cemetery	32.67513	-89.45451
Hopewell Cemetery	None	None
Horne Cemetery	None	None
Johnson Cemetery	32.71068	-89.66785
Johnson Cemetery	None	None
Jordan Cemetery	None	None
Kemp Cemetery	None	None
Leake Memorial Gardens	32.7543	-89.47506
Lena Cemetery	32.60069	-89.5934
Liberty Cemetery	None	None
Lindsey Cemetery	32.60097	-89.46284
Mars Hill Cemetery	32.8429	-89.35312
McDonald Cemetery	32.62402	-89.67729
McGee Cemetery	None	None
Merthursday Cemetery	None	None
Midway Cemetery	32.80791	-89.44118
Moore Cemetery	None	None
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.63791	-89.35923
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.77457	-89.5384
Nash Cemetery	32.90763	-89.63785
New Hope Cemetery	32.64152	-89.47923
New Providence Cemetery	32.79485	-89.6109
Old Hebron Cemetery	None	None
Old Jerusalem Cemetery	None	None
Parker Cemetery	32.58902	-89.49284
Pensacola Cemetery	None	None
Phillips Cemetery	None	None
Pickens Cemetery	None	None
Pilgrim Rest Cemetery	32.58763	-89.53312
Pilgrim Rest Cemetery	32.72513	-89.58785
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	32.85068	-89.53951
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	32.6793	-89.54173
Poplar Spring Cemetery	None	None
Redwater Cemetery	None	None
Reformation Cemetery	32.81791	-89.48673

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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