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Walthall County, Mississippi

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6historic places

—earliest paper

1914formed

13,884pop. 2020

131cemeteries

—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 Tylertown, Tylerton.

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 Walthall titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
China Grove Methodist Church	Tylertown	Building	1984
Collins, George H., House	Tylertown	Building	1992
Mt. Moriah School	Tylertown	Building	2017
New Orleans and Great Northern Railroad Depot-Tylertown	Tylerton	Building	2000
Walthall County Courthouse and Jail	Tylertown	Building	1994
Walthall County Training School	Tylertown	Building	2017

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Walthall was formed in 1914 (1914-04-25) from Marion, Pike.

WALTHALL created from MARION and PIKE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Walthall County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
13,455	17,534	15,563	13,512	13,761	15,156	13,884

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 131 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Ard Cemetery	31.06323	-90.11842
Barnes Cemetery	None	None
Bearden Cemetery	None	None
Boyd Cemetery	31.23128	-90.11064
Boyd Cemetery	None	None
Branch Cemetery	None	None
Breland Cemetery	None	None
Bridges Cemetery	31.20906	-90.23842
Brock Cemetery	31.02906	-90.22592
Brock Cemetery	None	None
Brock Cemetery	31.00127	-90.2105
Brumfield Cemetery	None	None
Brumfield Cemetery	None	None
Bullock Cemetery	None	None
Burch Cemetery	31.01243	-90.25243
Calvary Cemetery	31.06045	-90.11647
Carson Springs Cemetery	31.04785	-89.90075
Carter Fortenberry Cemetery	None	None
Centerville Cemetery	31.02339	-89.98922
Centerville Cemetery	31.06906	-90.19842
Charlie Duncan Cemetery	31.23378	-90.15425
China Grove Cemetery	31.20851	-90.05786
Collins Cemetery	None	None
Crawford Cemetery	None	None
Crawford Cemetery	None	None
Crystal Springs Cemetery	31.07295	-89.99258
Darbun Cemetery	31.26656	-90.06369
Davis Cemetery	None	None
Dillon Cemetery	31.06656	-90.15397
Duncan Cemetery	31.00503	-90.04841
Duncan Cemetery	31.01112	-90.15834
Duncan Cemetery	31.23489	-90.1937
Elisha Crawford Holmes Cemetery	31.12267	-90.08758
Elisha Holmes Senior Cemetery	31.10851	-90.09341
Elisha Thornhill Cemetery	31.15739	-90.18036
Elliott Cemetery	None	None
Enon Cemetery	31.29989	-90.2237
Foil Cemetery	31.21434	-90.18258
Fortenberry Cemetery	None	None
Fortenberry Cemetery	None	None
Founders Cemetery	31.12212	-90.13925
Garner Cemetery	31.33378	-90.22814
Ginn Cemetery	None	None
Goings Cemetery	None	None
Greer Cemetery	31.34934	-90.22536
HM Lee Memorial Cemetery	31.16295	-90.25092
Herring Cemetery	None	None
Hillcrest Memorial Gardens	31.12795	-90.10369
Hinds Cemetery	31.00492	-89.92988
Hobgood Cemetery	31.02244	-90.0281
Holmes Cemetery	31.03934	-90.22842
Holmes Cemetery	31.17851	-90.1887
Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Isaac Duncan Cemetery	31.23489	-90.15203
Jesse Holmes Cemetery	None	None
Jessie C Fortenberry Cemetery	31.07823	-90.04147
Joe Baden Cemetery	None	None
Jones Cemetery	None	None
Julius Bacot Sibley Cemetery	None	None
Knoxo Cemetery	31.13295	-90.04314
Lewis Cemetery	31.08017	-90.24453
Liberty Magee Cemetery	None	None
Magee Cemetery	None	None
Magee Cemetery	None	None
Magee Cemetery	None	None
Magee Cemetery	None	None
Magees Creek Cemetery	31.28184	-90.0848
Manning Cemetery	None	None
May Cemetery	None	None
McKenzie Cemetery	31.06045	-90.03119
McKenzie Cemetery	None	None
McKenzie Cemetery	None	None
McKenzie Cemetery	None	None
Morris Cemetery	31.04212	-90.20258
Morris Cemetery	None	None

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Babington	31.05435	-90.17898
Carto	31.12129	-90.07814
Conerby	31.11323	-90.12648

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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