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Oktibbeha County, Mississippi

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26historic places

—earliest paper

1833formed

51,788pop. 2020

47cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 26 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Starkville.

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

15 of 26 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

26 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bardwell House	Starkville	Building	1992
Bell House	Starkville	Building	1992
Carroll, Thomas Battle, House	Starkville	Building	1991
Cedars, The	Starkville	Building	1985
Downtown Starkville Historic District	Starkville	District	2012
Gay, C. E., House	Starkville	Building	1991
Gillespie-Jackson House	Starkville	Building	1986
Greensboro Street Historic District	Starkville	District	1982
Greensboro Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Starkville	District	2008
Herman Mound and Village Site	Starkville	Site	1993
Hotel Chester	Starkville	Building	1985
Lampkin-Owens House	Starkville	Building	1980
Lyon's Bluff Site	Starkville	Site	1976
Magruder-Newsom House	Starkville	Building	1984
Meadow Woods Plantation House	Starkville	Building	2001
Montgomery Hall	Starkville	Building	1975
Nash Street Historic District	Starkville	District	1993
Odd Fellows Cemetery	Starkville	Site	1990
Oktibbeha Gardens Subdivision Historic District	Starkville	District	2017
Outlaw, Dossey A., Plantation	Starkville	Building	2002
Overstreet School Historic District	Starkville	District	1992
Rogers, Emma and Ed, House	Starkville	Building	2017
Starkville Colored Cemetery	Starkville	Site	2014
Stone, John M., Cotton Mill	Starkville	Building	1975
Textile Building	Starkville	Building	1975
Walker-Critz House	Starkville	Building	1989

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Oktibbeha was formed in 1833 (1833-12-23) from Lowndes.

OKTIBBEHA created from LOWNDES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,276	12,977	15,978	20,183	16,872	22,151	24,569	26,175	36,018	42,902	51,788

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

47 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 47 of 47 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adaton Baptist Cemetery	33.47454	-88.91801
Adaton Methodist Cemetery	33.48123	-88.9195
Associated Reform Presbyterian Cemetery	33.46465	-88.80863
Bethel Cemetery	33.36348	-88.81854
Bethel Cemetery	33.28817	-89.0695
Bethesda Baptist Cemetery	33.32017	-88.68522
Big Creek Methodist Cemetery	33.41046	-89.05659
Boyd Cemetery	33.46441	-88.77656
Cedar Grove Cemetery	33.31651	-88.84977
Center Grove Cemetery	33.51072	-89.02092
Clear Springs Cemetery	33.50234	-89.06351
Colcolough Cemetery	33.34317	-88.88574
Community Club Cemetery	33.3304	-88.7556
Craig Springs Cemetery	33.31484	-88.91422
Crigler Cemetery	33.31097	-88.70325
Curtis Chapel Cemetery	33.46261	-88.69338
Double Springs Cemetery	33.50289	-89.062
Double Springs Cemetery	33.48706	-89.06117
Fox Cemetery	33.44884	-88.73245
Halbert Cemetery	None	None
Harvey Cemetery	None	None
Josey Creek Cemetery	33.44884	-88.90574
Lost Cemetery	33.40237	-88.9792
Mayhew Mission Cemetery	33.54622	-88.68449
McClelland Cemetery	33.32206	-88.97117
Memorial Garden Park Cemetery	33.42682	-88.77389
Morgan Chapel Cemetery	33.30512	-88.997
Mount Olive Cemetery	33.41767	-89.06629
New Hope Cemetery	33.43012	-88.91366
Old Presbyterian Cemetery	33.45989	-88.82693
Old Whitefield Cemetery	33.34928	-89.04283
Outlaw-Harvey Cemetery	None	None
Parrish Cemetery	33.38428	-88.72421
Pearsons Chapel Cemetery	33.54178	-88.88505
Peters Cemetery	33.38873	-88.70532
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery	33.38789	-89.00339
Rice Cemetery	33.44039	-88.7306
Salem Cemetery	33.38289	-88.75115
Sanders Cemetery	33.32984	-88.71754
Seitz Cemetery	33.42984	-88.69171
Self Creek Cemetery	33.46444	-89.01219
Sessums Cemetery	33.41817	-88.71504
Shaw Family Cemetery	None	None
Spencer Family Cemetery	None	None
Stewart Cemetery	33.28706	-88.71199
Sturgis Cemetery	33.34512	-89.05061
Wake Forest Cemetery	33.36522	-89.05721

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Pine Grove	33.30096	-88.76672

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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