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Montgomery County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1871formed

9,822pop. 2020

55cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Winona.

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 Montgomery titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Immanuel Episcopal Church	Winona	Building	2005
Purnell, James C., House	Winona	Building	1990
Stafford's Wells Hotel	Winona	Building	2000
U.S. Post Office	Winona	Building	1981
Winona Commercial Historic District	Winona	District	1994
Winona Community House	Winona	Building	2009
Winona Historic District	Winona	District	2015
Wisteria Hotel	Winona	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Montgomery was formed in 1871 (1871-05-13) from Carroll, Choctaw.

MONTGOMERY created from CARROLL and CHOCTAW.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Montgomery County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
13,348	16,536	13,805	15,703	14,470	13,320	13,366	12,189	9,822

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

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

Cemeteries — 55 of 55 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams Cemetery	33.35373	-89.50535
Bethesda Cemetery	33.56067	-89.66257
Bethesda Cemetery	33.55706	-89.65702
Bethlehem Cemetery	33.48567	-89.65618
Biblical Garden Cemetery	33.45345	-89.74341
Branscome Cemetery	33.3683	-89.47068
Bronte Cemetery	33.50123	-89.61285
Center Hill Cemetery	33.64206	-89.57952
Duck Hill Cemetery	33.62456	-89.71702
Dunn Cemetery	33.65622	-89.52229
Flowers Cemetery	33.43373	-89.58507
Forest Hill Cemetery	33.47484	-89.73897
Goodin Cemetery	33.36484	-89.61646
Griffin Cemetery	33.40873	-89.60952
Griffin Cemetery	33.41928	-89.59868
Hays Creek Cemetery	33.51956	-89.66035
Hays Creek Cemetery	33.53012	-89.65368
Joe Walker Cemetery	33.31114	-89.5684
Jordans Cemetery	33.65234	-89.62007
Kindred Cemetery	33.43373	-89.58396
Lindsey Springs Cemetery	33.46095	-89.53729
Loggins Cemetery	33.55012	-89.54979
Mars Hill Cemetery	33.62849	-89.59596
Mason Cemetery	33.40817	-89.71285
Mission Cemetery	33.53484	-89.78313
Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery	33.62989	-89.64152
Mount Pleasant Church Cemetery	33.62734	-89.64702
Mulberry Cemetery	33.549	-89.53785
New Hope Methodist Church Cemetery	33.53627	-89.74025
New Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery	33.59846	-89.50715
Oakwood Cemetery	33.48346	-89.74286
Old Friendship Cemetery	33.3029	-89.55229
Old Friendship Cemetery	33.30373	-89.55563
Old Northern Grocery Cemetery	33.52539	-89.60618
Old Pine Bluff Cemetery	33.36206	-89.61285
Pine Grove Cemetery	33.51095	-89.70896
Pittman Cemetery	33.51762	-89.55451
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.48734	-89.58174
Prospect Cemetery	33.60428	-89.78452
Prospect Church Cemetery	33.53039	-89.71369
Purnell Cemetery	33.51789	-89.52757
Red Hill Church Cemetery	33.66956	-89.58868
Saint Johns Cemetery	33.57317	-89.74035
Salem Cemetery	33.52651	-89.55896
Shady Grove Cemetery	33.51789	-89.55535
Shiloh Cemetery	33.30762	-89.5359
Shiloh Cemetery	33.58984	-89.58729
Spring Hill Cemetery	33.57539	-89.55785
Stinson Cemetery	33.40262	-89.55535
Taylor Cemetery	33.62317	-89.62952
Townsend Cemetery	33.48347	-89.68024
Wilkins Cemetery	33.64484	-89.75619
Williams Cemetery	33.57423	-89.70705
Wilmount Cemetery	33.47067	-89.61841
Wilson Cemetery	33.5111	-89.73338

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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