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Winston County, Mississippi

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8historic places

—earliest paper

1833formed

17,714pop. 2020

110cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Louisville, Fearns Springs.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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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
Baptist Church of Christ at Sardis	Louisville	Building	2011
Downtown Louisville Historic District	Louisville	District	2011
Foster-Fair House	Louisville	Building	2000
Legion State Park	Louisville	District	1998
Masonic Hall, Old	Louisville	Building	1994
Nanih Waiya Mound And Village	Fearns Springs	Site	1973
Old Robinson Road	Louisville	Structure	1975
Smyth, Benjamin Franklin, House	Louisville	Building	1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Winston was formed in 1833 (1833-12-23) from Lowndes, Madison, Rankin.

WINSTON created from LOWNDES, MADISON, and RANKIN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,650	9,811	10,087	14,124	18,139	22,751	22,231	19,246	19,474	20,160	17,714

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

110 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 110 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alexander Cemetery	None	None
Antioch Cemetery	33.19679	-88.84561
Antioch Cemetery	33.24317	-88.977
Antioch Cemetery	32.97873	-89.17589
Avery Cemetery	None	None
Betheden Cemetery	33.21817	-88.94366
Bevil Hill Cemetery	33.23067	-88.91255
Blackwood Cemetery	33.28151	-89.10645
Boswell Cemetery	33.10012	-89.19617
Boyston Cemetery	None	None
Calvary Cemetery	33.0879	-89.12395
Campground Cemetery	33.04123	-89.127
Center Ridge Cemetery	33.08957	-89.2209
Conner Cemetery	None	None
Corbran Cemetery	None	None
Corbran Cemetery	None	None
Cornwell Cemetery	None	None
Cox Cemetery	None	None
Davis Cemetery	None	None
Eaves Cemetery	None	None
Ellison Ridge Cemetery	33.06568	-88.87866
Enon Cemetery	32.98568	-88.98589
Ever Green Cemetery	None	None
Flower Ridge Cemetery	33.06401	-89.06533
Frazier Cemetery	None	None
Fulton Cemetery	32.98762	-88.95005
Glenn Cemetery	33.20456	-88.88144
Good Hope Baptist Church Cemetery	32.99901	-88.85144
Gooden Cemetery	None	None
Harmony Cemetery	32.98845	-88.91338
Harrington Cemetery	33.19345	-88.82699
Hemphill Cemetery	33.02984	-88.83088
Higginbotham Cemetery	33.01568	-88.81477
Hight Cemetery	32.96012	-89.06061
Hinze Cemetery	33.02846	-89.26423
Holly Grove Cemetery	None	None
Hopewell Cemetery	33.02512	-89.19006
Horton Cemetery	None	None
Irland Cemetery	None	None
Jackson Field Cemetery	32.94735	-88.8456
Johnson Cemetery	33.09484	-89.03061
Kelly Cemetery	None	None
Kirk Family Cemetery	33.09595	-88.88005
Liberty Cemetery	33.17012	-88.96116
Liberty Cemetery	32.98873	-89.16506
Little Calvary Cemetery	33.04596	-89.23701
Little Rock Cemetery	33.21845	-89.097
Louisville Cemetery	33.12151	-89.05089
Maple Springs Cemetery	None	None
Mars Hill Cemetery	32.94318	-89.24534
Masonic Cemetery	33.12151	-89.057
Methodist Cemetery	32.98758	-89.06058
Middleton Cemetery	32.9479	-88.93922
Mount Calvary Cemetery	33.00512	-89.23062
Mount Carmel Baptist Cemetery	32.99318	-89.06672
Mount Carmel Cemetery	None	None
Mount Hebron Cemetery	32.95596	-88.87255
Mount Pisgah Cemetery	32.9554	-88.84171
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	32.93596	-88.87116
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	32.95318	-89.13617
Mount Pleasant Number 2 Cemetery	None	None
Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery	33.07898	-89.01446
Murphy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery	33.11106	-88.94026
Nebo Cemetery	33.01012	-89.27423
New Hope Methodist Church Cemetery	33.10089	-88.97242
New Zion Cemetery	33.15706	-89.14339
Noxubee Cemetery	33.26484	-88.81422
Noxubee Cemetery	None	None
Noxubee Hill Cemetery	33.20803	-89.07576
Noxubee Hill Cemetery	None	None
Oak Grove Cemetery	32.93151	-88.98894
Old Baptist Cemetery	None	None
Old Enon Cemetery	None	None
Old Mount Vernon Cemetery	None	None
Oliver Cemetery	33.16651	-88.92339
Perkinsville Cemetery	33.10144	-88.86538
Plattsburg Cemetery	32.94235	-89.18839
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.1704	-88.91394
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	33.10595	-89.20423
Pleasant Hill Number One Cemetery	33.27179	-89.01033

Historical populated places — 7 of 7

Name	Lat	Lon
Coonwood	32.97791	-88.98339
Deposit	33.23179	-88.912
Finis Hook	32.9543	-89.16673
Lobutcha	33.10568	-89.25507
Perkinsville	33.10124	-88.86394
Randalls Bluff	33.06402	-88.90561
Singleton	33.18901	-88.857

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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