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Pike County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
29historic places
—earliest paper
1815formed
40,324pop. 2020
201cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 29 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Magnolia, McComb, Summit.

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 Pike titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

19 of 29 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

29 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Annex, TheMagnoliaBuilding1984
Bank of SummitSummitBuilding1983
Berryhill HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
BrentwoodMcCombBuilding1989
Buie BuildingMagnoliaBuilding1984
Burglund HeightsMacombDistrict2024
Carraway HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Chadwick, George, HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
DepotMagnoliaBuilding1984
Enochs, Phillip Henry, HouseFernwoodBuilding2002
Everette-Gottig-Bilbo HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Holmes HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Holmes, William Frederick, HouseMcCombBuilding2004
Holmesville Historic DistrictHolmesvilleDistrict2025
Kramertown-Railroad Historic DistrictMcCombDistrict1980
Lanier HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Magnolia ManorOsykaBuilding1983
McComb Downtown Historic DistrictMcCombDistrict2004
Mullendore HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Myrtle Street Historic DistrictMagnoliaDistrict1984
Norwood-TWL BuildingMagnoliaBuilding1984
Simmons HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
Southtown Historic DistrictMagnoliaDistrict1984
Spinks PlantationMagnoliaBuilding2007
States Area Neighborhood Historic DistrictMcCombDistrict2014
Stogner HouseMagnoliaBuilding1984
TanglewoodMagnoliaBuilding1991
US Post Office-MagnoliaMagnoliaBuilding1993
White-Alford HouseMcCombBuilding1983

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pike was formed in 1815 (1815-12-09) from Marion.

PIKE created by Mississippi Territory from MARION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Pike County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

40k22k4,4381820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,4386,15111,13516,68827,54528,72535,00235,13735,06336,17338,94040,324

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

201 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 201 listed
NameLatLon
Alford Cemetery31.01184-90.3187
Alford Cemetery31.1485-90.35537
Alfred Cook Cemetery31.14823-90.44315
Allen Cemetery31.08529-90.36626
Allen Cemetery31.09986-90.35358
Allen Cemetery31.10982-90.36248
Allen Cemetery31.12008-90.37001
Alton Roberts Cemetery31.04212-90.49592
Andrews Cemetery31.22378-90.47759
Andrews-Bickam-Quin Cemetery31.18628-90.32926
Ann Tyler Cemetery31.03601-90.40953
Ansel Prewitt Cemetery31.15684-90.44092
Ard Cemetery31.03962-90.4037
Bala Chitto Cemetery31.10434-90.37009
Barnes Cemetery31.14378-90.48259
Barron Cemetery31.26055-90.43011
Berry Cemetery31.34072-90.45315
Bethany Cemetery31.23656-90.39231
Bluff Springs Cemetery31.08835-90.382
Bogue Chitto Cemetery31.28517-90.27481
Bolian Cemetery31.31489-90.46093
Boyd Cemetery31.27499-90.27988
Brent Cemetery31.24934-90.27898
Brent Cemetery31.24961-90.29064
Brewer - Webb Cemetery31.06934-90.34675
Bridges Cemetery31.28184-90.32426
Brumfield Cemetery31.11267-90.26342
Brumfield Cemetery31.12962-90.29648
Brumfield Cemetery31.03017-90.27231
Burch Cemetery31.01434-90.26925
Burkhalter Cemetery31.10906-90.27509
Busby Cemetery31.29711-90.37815
Calvary Cemetery31.29156-90.29592
Carroll - Cook Cemetery31.23761-90.4794
Charles Cole Cemetery31.2985-90.45481
Charles Young Cemetery31.18156-90.33148
Clark Cemetery31.2485-90.48093
Conerly Cemetery31.16045-90.29231
Conerly Cemetery31.17485-90.2891
Coney Cemetery31.12693-90.38194
Coney Cemetery31.13351-90.38453
Coney Cemetery31.13695-90.40511
Connally Cemetery31.22601-90.36843
Cooks Cemetery31.24211-90.53704
Covington Cemetery31.32906-90.49259
Curtis Cemetery31.28545-90.3937
Curtis Cemetery31.28267-90.38815
Cutrer Cemetery31.01127-90.49582
DeKane Cemetery31.18096-90.53357
Dickey Cemetery31.03993-90.46038
Dinah Cemetery31.22795-90.4512
Duff Cemetery31.20295-90.3937
Durham Cemetery31.14642-90.38324
Dykes Cemetery31.00212-90.44926
East Union Baptist Church Cemetery31.14554-90.38359
Eaton Cemetery31.331-90.31731
Ellzey Cemetery31.15378-90.33287
Ezell Cemetery31.24462-90.48176
Felder Cemetery31.12545-90.46176
Felder Cemetery31.08573-90.49037
Fellowship Cemetery31.30295-90.42342
Fernwood Cemetery31.18934-90.43815
Ford Cemetery31.00351-90.45398
Fortenberry Cemetery31.0024-90.27981
Fortenberry Cemetery31.0388-90.29704
Fulham Cemetery31.08084-90.46156
Garner Cemetery31.29795-90.30231
Gatlin Cemetery31.246-90.39731
Gibson Cemetery31.27239-90.48343
Gibson Cemetery31.23364-90.39044
Gray Cemetery31.12656-90.2687
Greenwood Cemetery31.25823-90.45204
Guiding Light Cemetery31.07597-90.40331
Guy Cemetery31.141-90.53176
Guy Cemetery31.09045-90.53565
Hall Cemetery31.09962-90.28064
Harrell - Martin Cemetery31.176-90.51232
Hayman Cemetery31.28434-90.52343
Herron Cemetery31.31211-90.31592
Hinson - Knippers Cemetery31.07351-90.44842
Historical populated places — 3 of 3
NameLatLon
New Holmesville31.21268-90.31398
Quins Station31.20184-90.44649
Stephens31.07518-90.47371

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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