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Smith County, Mississippi

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1historic places

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1833formed

14,209pop. 2020

84cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1986. Most listings are in or near Taylorsville.

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 Smith titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Taylorsville Signal Office and Watkins General Store	Taylorsville	Building	1986

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

SMITH created from COVINGTON, JONES, and RANKIN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,961	7,638	8,088	13,055	16,178	19,403	16,740	14,303	15,077	16,182	14,209

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 84 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alex Sullivan Cemetery	31.82494	-89.56072
Austin Cemetery	32.08765	-89.5234
Barber Cemetery	32.10349	-89.50757
Barber Cemetery	32.13215	-89.53858
Barnes Cemetery	32.09469	-89.50721
Beaverdam Baptist Church Cemetery	31.96776	-89.44853
Bethany Cemetery	32.02821	-89.37451
Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery	32.18308	-89.55653
Black Cemetery	32.20912	-89.57317
Boykin Church cemetery	32.09855	-89.58987
Burnett Cemetery	32.15288	-89.34769
Burnett Cemetery	31.94571	-89.47062
Burns Baptist Cemetery	32.13215	-89.53838
Burns Methodist Cemetery	32.13099	-89.53989
Carr Methodist Church Cemetery	32.2057	-89.40748
Clear Creek Baptist Church Cemetery	31.86563	-89.38158
Clear Springs Baptist Church Cemetery	32.14368	-89.34393
Craft Cemetery	32.07765	-89.54618
Derrick Cemetery	32.14845	-89.57417
Ditch Cemetery	31.97022	-89.48915
Dukes Cemetery	32.05811	-89.68485
Ed Sullivan Cemetery	31.84397	-89.54858
Everett Cemetery	32.0648	-89.71865
Galilee Church Cemetery	32.04799	-89.72973
Gasque Chapel Cemetery	32.17935	-89.52991
Good Hope Cemetery	32.1614	-89.5345
Goodwater Baptist Church Cemetery	32.14157	-89.50277
Gordan Cemetery	32.09526	-89.59412
Hailes Cemetery	32.19129	-89.66093
Henderson Family Cemetery	32.12081	-89.518
High Hill Baptist Church Cemetery	32.08582	-89.47811
James Cemetery	32.15169	-89.70691
Johnson Cemetery	32.01471	-89.42175
Jones Cemetery	31.87046	-89.5298
Leaf River Baptist Church Cemetery	32.12658	-89.39871
Lemon Christian Cemetery	32.12246	-89.47466
Lingle Cemetery	32.20976	-89.57389
Lorena Baptist Church Cemetery	32.19187	-89.5061
Lorena Baptist Church Extension Cemetery	32.1975	-89.50593
Luther Chapel Lutheran Church Cemetery	32.21831	-89.54437
McCraw Cemetery	31.939	-89.36063
Merchant Cemetery	32.03405	-89.64734
Miley Cemetery	32.079	-89.70269
Moore Cemetery	32.01323	-89.46581
Moss Cemetery	32.10656	-89.59243
Moulder Cemetery	32.12404	-89.6009
Mount Carmel Cemetery	32.17509	-89.45908
Mount Nebo Baptist Church Cemetery	32.09803	-89.43171
Mount Nebo Cemetery	32.0952	-89.46776
Mount Pisgah Cemetery	32.05895	-89.52609
Myers Cemetery	32.09504	-89.57363
New Chapel Cemetery	32.17088	-89.59473
New Chapel Cemetery	32.18543	-89.60924
North Raleigh Cemetery	32.04302	-89.52223
Oak Grove Church of God Cemetery	32.17418	-89.66555
Old Henderson Cemetery	32.11995	-89.49193
Old Polkville Cemetery	32.18809	-89.70299
Old White Oak Cemetery	32.06926	-89.69308
Old Zion Hill Cemetery	31.80004	-89.54394
Page Cemetery	32.08922	-89.54375
Pleasant Hill Landmark Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery	31.78356	-89.61053
Polkville Pentecostal Cemetery	32.20973	-89.67088
Providence Cemetery	32.13561	-89.55286
Raleigh Cemetery	32.03086	-89.52301
Roberts Cemetery	32.19678	-89.56856
Rock Bluff Cemetery	32.12509	-89.71658
Rocky Hill Church Cemetery	31.96563	-89.64907
Royals and Webb Cemetery	32.09347	-89.40995
Sardis Baptist Cemetery	32.12026	-89.64861
Shady Grove Cemetery	31.89071	-89.6334
Sharon Baptist Church Cemetery	32.09107	-89.57423
Steve Hughes Cemetery	32.10732	-89.63445
Summerland Baptist Church Cemetery	31.80066	-89.36315
Sylvan Grove Cemetery	32.11382	-89.45315
Terry Cemetery	32.0918	-89.68334
Thomas F. Sullivan Cemetery	31.83352	-89.5696
Tillson Cemetery	31.96555	-89.51881
Tom Sullivan Cemetery	31.80011	-89.62973
Trinity Cemetery	32.092	-89.47558
Union Baptist Church cemetery	31.9799	-89.52198

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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