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Sharkey County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1876formed

3,800pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Cary, Rolling Fork, Holly Bluff.

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 Sharkey titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cary Site (22Sh507)	Cary	Site	1988
Clements, Dr. Early Colman and Ann Foote, House	Rolling Fork	Building	2026
Georgianna	Cary	Building	2019
Leist A Site (22Sh520;22N1)	Rolling Fork	Structure	1988
Rolling Fork Mounds	Rolling Fork	Site	1974
Savory Site (22-Sh-518)	Holly Bluff	Site	1988
Spanish Fort Site (22SH500)	Holly Bluff	Site	1988
Tucker House	Cary	Building	2024

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sharkey was formed in 1876 (1876-03-29) from Issaquena, Washington.

SHARKEY created from ISSAQUENA and WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,306	12,178	14,190	15,433	12,903	10,738	7,964	6,580	3,800

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

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cameta Cemetery	32.99401	-90.84454
Centrana Cemetery	32.95762	-90.84843
Danover Cemetery	32.84762	-90.89732
Delta City Cemetery	33.07873	-90.80898
Elmwood Cemetery	32.89318	-90.89482
Fish Lake Cemetery	33.05123	-90.75231
Georgia Bend Cemetery	33.08734	-90.86482
Golden Link Cemetery	32.97262	-90.85454
Harris Cemetery	33.00151	-90.76426
Jeffery Cemetery	32.75957	-90.73481
Kettleman Cemetery	32.75929	-90.7312
Vickland Cemetery	33.04234	-90.83204
Vicks Cemetery	32.9779	-90.8337
Weathers Cemetery	32.8929	-90.90593

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Hollands	32.98041	-90.66621

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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