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Scott County, Mississippi

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6historic places

—earliest paper

1833formed

27,990pop. 2020

37cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Forest, Hillsboro, Lake.

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 Scott titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Forest Downtown Historic District	Forest	District	2014
Hillsboro Methodist Church and Cemetery	Hillsboro	Building	2017
Lake Railroad Station	Lake	Building	1984
Moore Lookout Tower	Forest	Structure	1999
Roosevelt State Park	Morton	District	1997
US Post Office-Forest	Forest	Building	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Scott was formed in 1833 (1833-12-23) from Covington, Jones, Rankin.

SCOTT created from COVINGTON, JONES, and RANKIN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,653	8,139	10,845	14,316	16,420	23,144	21,681	21,187	24,556	28,423	27,990

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

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

Cemeteries — 37 of 37 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Amis Cemetery	32.49652	-89.33423
Brassel Cemetery	32.27228	-89.58517
Cash Cemetery	32.56902	-89.56729
Coward Cemetery	32.56958	-89.6659
Damascus Cemetery	32.5518	-89.38867
Dennis Cemetery	32.37098	-89.34951
East Morton Cemetery	32.34624	-89.63383
Eastern Cemetery	32.36487	-89.45646
Elliott Cemetery	32.54569	-89.53229
Faulkner Cemetery	32.33237	-89.53896
Futchs Cemetery	32.4082	-89.36784
Gatewood Cemetery	32.27999	-89.45476
Hayes Creek Cemetery	32.5568	-89.51451
Hodge Hill Cemetery	32.37794	-89.65569
Latham Cemetery	32.47791	-89.68173
Lay Cemetery	32.43375	-89.37062
Lebanon Church Cemetery	32.49513	-89.5034
Lee Cemetery	32.57291	-89.67062
Liberty Cemetery	32.43014	-89.71201
Line Creek Cemetery	32.30792	-89.71368
Lone Pilgrim Cemetery	32.47902	-89.5159
Luther Chapel Cemetery	32.24053	-89.55127
Luther Chapel Cemetery	32.25709	-89.5884
Morton Memorial Cemetery	32.38153	-89.65424
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.5593	-89.69146
New Good Hope Cemetery	32.23142	-89.59198
Noblin Cemetery	32.23101	-89.49515
North Morton Cemetery	32.36209	-89.56507
Old Duncan Cemetery	32.47625	-89.62257
Old Union Cemetery	32.49486	-89.43201
Pearson Cemetery	32.56013	-89.70424
Searcy Cemetery	32.26084	-89.60047
Sims Cemetery	32.31487	-89.61202
Slay Cemetery	32.56819	-89.59423
Summers Cemetery	32.46819	-89.37395
Trinity Cemetery	32.5343	-89.59007
Walker Cemetery	32.32848	-89.62979

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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