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Warren County, Mississippi

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
80historic places
—earliest paper
1809formed
44,722pop. 2020
29cemeteries
6CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 80 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Vicksburg, Bovina, Youngton.

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 Warren titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

58 of 80 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

80 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
1300 Grove Street HouseVicksburgBuilding1983
AnchucaVicksburgBuilding1982
Anshe Chesed CemeteryVicksburgSite2014
Balfour HouseVicksburgBuilding1971
Battery #4 Powder MagazineVicksburgStructure2023
Beck HouseVicksburgBuilding1979
Belle FleurVicksburgBuilding1992
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal ChurchVicksburgBuilding1992
Beulah CemeteryVicksburgSite1992
Biedenharn Candy Company BuildingVicksburgBuilding1977
Big Black River Railroad BridgeBovinaStructure1988
Blum HouseVicksburgBuilding1992
Bobb HouseVicksburgBuilding1979
Bonham, Isaac, HouseVicksburgBuilding1977
Carr Junior High SchoolVicksburgBuilding2002
Cedar GroveVicksburgBuilding1976
Chickasaw Bayou BattlefieldVicksburgSite1973
Christian and Brough BuildingVicksburgBuilding2014
Church of the Holy TrinityVicksburgBuilding1978
Confederate Avenue Brick Arch BridgeVicksburgStructure1988
Craig-Flowers HouseVicksburgBuilding1984
Davis-Mitchell HouseVicksburgBuilding1982
Fairground Street BridgeVicksburgStructure1988
Federal Fortifications Along Bear CreekYoungtonSite1974
Feld HouseVicksburgBuilding1982
Fitz-Hugh HallVicksburgBuilding1986
Flowerree, Col. Charles C., HouseVicksburgBuilding1975
FonsylvaniaVicksburgBuilding1984
Fort St. Pierre Site NHLVicksburgSite2000
Galleries, TheVicksburgBuilding1980
Gilland-Hudson HouseVicksburgBuilding2024
Glenwood-Vicklan Historic DistrictVicksburgDistrict2009
Green, Duff, HouseVicksburgBuilding1979
Grove Street HousesVicksburgBuilding1980
Grove Street-Jackson Historic DistrictVicksburgDistrict2007
Guider HouseVicksburgBuilding1980
Harding, P. M., HouseVicksburgBuilding1986
Hotel VicksburgVicksburgBuilding1979
Hullum, Joel and Margaret, HouseVicksburgBuilding1984
Hyland Mound Archeological SiteVicksburgSite2001
Jackson Street Missionary Baptist ChurchVicksburgBuilding2017
Johnson, Fannie Willis, HouseVicksburgBuilding1988
Knox, Dr. Isaac Cecil, HouseVicksburgBuilding1990
Lane, John, HouseVicksburgBuilding1982
Lassiter, W. W., Wholesale Grocery WarehouseVicksburgBuilding1994
Loosa Yokena Archeological SiteKimberlySite2001
Luckett CompoundVicksburgBuilding1983
Magnolias, TheVicksburgBuilding1987
Magruder-Morrissey HouseVicksburgBuilding1984
Main Street Historic DistrictVicksburgDistrict1979
Main Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)VicksburgDistrict1989
McDermott HouseVicksburgBuilding1984
McNutt HouseVicksburgBuilding1975
Mississippi River BridgeVicksburgStructure1989
Old Courthouse, Warren County NHLVicksburgBuilding1968
Pemberton's Headquarters NHLVicksburgBuilding1970
Planters HallVicksburgBuilding1971
Planters Hall (Boundary Increase)VicksburgBuilding1988
Polk-Sherard-Hinman HouseVicksburgBuilding2018
Rolling Acres Historic DistrictVicksburgDistrict2019
Rose, Adolph, BuildingVicksburgBuilding1992
Shlenker HouseVicksburgBuilding1983
Snyder's BluffRedwoodSite1973
South Cherry Street Historic DistrictVicksburgDistrict2003
South Drummond Street Neighborhood Historic DistrictVicksburgDistrict2015
South Vicksburg Public School No. 200VicksburgBuilding1986
St. Francis Xavier ConventVicksburgBuilding1977
Tri-State Motor Coach StationVicksburgBuilding2019
U.S.S. CAIROPascagoulaStructure1971
Uptown Vicksburg Historic District (Additional Documentation)VicksburgDistrict1993
Uptown Vicksburg Historic District (Boundary Increase II)VicksburgDistrict2020
Uptown Vicksburg Historic District (Boundary Increase)VicksburgDistrict2004
Vicksburg National Military ParkVicksburgDistrict1966
Vicksburg Public Library, OldVicksburgBuilding1992
Vicksburg Siege CaveVicksburgStructure1973
Walnut HillsVicksburgBuilding1982
Waterways Experiment StationVicksburgDistrict2000
Yazoo And Mississippi Valley DepotVicksburgBuilding1979
Yokena Presbyterian ChurchVicksburgBuilding1984
Young-Bradfield HouseVicksburgBuilding1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Warren was formed in 1809 (1809-12-22) from Claiborne.

WARREN created by Mississippi Territory from CLAIBORNE and Non-County Area 1.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Warren County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

52k26k1,1141810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,1142,69315,82020,69631,23840,91233,36239,59539,61642,20651,62749,64444,722

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Vicksburg National Military ParkPark unit0.5 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 29 of 29 listed
NameLatLon
Allen Cemetery32.10765-90.94732
Anshe Chesed Cemetery32.34485-90.85411
Beard Cemetery32.17265-90.92982
Beulah Cemetery32.35816-90.84868
Brickhouse Cemetery32.47375-90.65565
Brierfield Cemetery32.15237-91.12094
Brunswick Cemetery32.54874-91.04149
Cedars Cemetery32.24348-90.91954
Crocket Cemetery32.39319-90.85121
Flower Hill Cemetery32.42958-90.70954
Flowers Cemetery32.38792-90.67232
Glass Cemetery32.21126-90.9451
Hackler Cemetery32.45627-90.70006
Harris Cemetery32.45736-90.62426
Henry - Grant Cemetery32.44155-90.60972
Kiger Cemetery32.53041-91.01843
Lewis Cemetery32.46347-90.71204
Marley Cemetery32.53347-90.6062
Mount Albin Cemetery32.32264-90.75537
Mount Giving Cemetery32.18153-90.94121
Neely Cemetery32.46319-90.71704
Oakland Cemetery32.38418-90.6749
Old Savoy Cemetery32.12376-90.92482
Parker Cemetery32.45875-90.72204
Sadler Cemetery32.14042-90.90149
Tates Cemetery32.31986-90.87288
Taylor Cemetery32.40153-90.68954
Vicksburg National Cemetery32.37494-90.86916
Wright Cemetery32.1507-90.9076

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

BattlefieldStudy acresDist.Site ID
Vicksburg12,2652.5 kmMS011
Chickasaw Bayou15,9689.3 kmMS003
Snyder'S Bluff2,91312.7 kmMS005
Big Black River Bridge2,91414.6 kmMS010
Milliken'S Bend2,70324.8 kmLA011
Champion Hill9,67228.9 kmMS009

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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