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Quitman County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1877formed

6,176pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Marks, Denton, Lambert.

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 Quitman titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Denton Site	Denton	Site	1979
Marks Downtown Historic District	Marks	District	2024
Norman Site	Lambert	Site	1975
Posey Site (22QU500)	Marks	Site	1986
Shady Grove Site (22QU525)	Marks	Site	1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Quitman was formed in 1877 (1877-02-01) from Coahoma, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tunica.

QUITMAN created from COAHOMA, PANOLA, TALLAHATCHIE, and TUNICA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,407	5,435	19,861	27,191	25,885	21,019	12,636	10,117	6,176

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Belen Cemetery	34.2751	-90.35064
Bower Cemetery	34.08983	-90.38759
Denton Cemetery	34.14649	-90.31981
Gleason Grove Cemetery	34.37124	-90.37403
Lambert Cemetery	34.19038	-90.28675
New Macedonia Cemetery	34.10177	-90.19286
Posey Mound Cemetery	34.32399	-90.30537
Tallahatchie County Cemetery	34.08011	-90.39925
Youngs Cemetery	34.12038	-90.32731

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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