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Yalobusha County, Mississippi

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1833formed

12,481pop. 2020

82cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1985. Most listings are in or near Water Valley, Oakland.

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

1 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Simmons House	Water Valley	Building	2020
US Post Office-Water Valley	Water Valley	Building	1985
Walker High School	Oakland	Building	2025
Water Valley Main Street Historic District	Water Valley	District	2012

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Yalobusha was formed in 1833 (1833-12-23) from Monroe, Washington.

YALOBUSHA created from MONROE, WASHINGTON, and Non-County Area 11 attached to HOLMES.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
12,248	16,952	15,649	19,742	18,738	18,387	15,191	12,502	13,139	13,051	12,481

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

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

Cemeteries — 80 of 82 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adams Cemetery	34.02094	-89.65063
Arimount Cemetery	33.96094	-89.51813
Austin Cemetery	34.13094	-89.70619
Bailey Cemetery	33.9815	-89.70453
Benson Cemetery	34.11344	-89.81314
Berry Cemetery	34.12872	-89.6898
Bethel Cemetery	34.11483	-89.61675
Bethlehem Cemetery	34.06066	-89.6648
Big Springs Cemetery	34.13871	-89.70814
Brooms Cemetery	33.97594	-89.62424
Brooms Cemetery	33.98816	-89.66091
Brower Cemetery	34.06677	-89.57397
Brown Cemetery	34.13594	-89.55591
Brown Cemetery	34.03066	-89.91897
Buntin Cemetery	33.99233	-89.6848
Carr Cemeteries	34.03789	-89.87786
Cedar Grove Cemetery	34.00261	-89.64813
Clear Springs Cemetery	33.88831	-89.62477
Cook Cemetery	34.01261	-89.89786
Dividing Ridge Cemetery	33.89233	-89.5273
Duke Cemetery	34.12622	-89.91592
Elam Cemetery	33.95372	-89.63202
Elm Grove Cemetery	33.92511	-89.59535
Fords Cemetery	34.11538	-89.79869
Gilmore Cemetery	34.11233	-89.6498
Gimble Cemetery	34.01511	-89.73758
Goshen Cemetery	34.03316	-89.75925
Green Goshen Cemetery	34.05288	-89.7373
Guess Cemetery	34.03938	-89.84354
Hairston Cemetery	33.94594	-89.67397
Hamblet Cemetery	33.94844	-89.53619
Harbor Cemetery	33.99816	-89.62036
Hardeman Cemetery	33.89455	-89.73314
Harris Cemetery	34.07205	-89.73369
Haven Hill Cemetery	33.96955	-89.57785
Hervey Cemetery	34.09149	-89.65286
Hopewell Cemetery	34.04372	-89.60591
Hopewell Cemetery	33.96788	-89.7248
Hubbard Cemetery	34.16288	-89.82036
Humphreys Cemetery	34.18455	-89.56424
Jackson Cemetery	34.07844	-89.89147
Jehovah Cemetery	33.96427	-89.81619
Johnson Cemeteries	34.07316	-89.65063
Jones Cemetery	33.91427	-89.51924
Lesters Cemetery	34.00106	-89.90349
Long Branch Cemetery	34.08288	-89.77508
Macedonia Cemetery	34.07205	-89.57702
Meggs Cemetery	34.00761	-89.52785
Moore Cemetery	34.12566	-89.66758
Mount Gilead Cemetery	34.05649	-89.67202
Mount Myra Cemetery	33.89205	-89.74786
New Hope Cemetery	33.94538	-89.55091
Oak Ridge Cemetery	34.1551	-89.61175
Palestine Cemetery	34.18288	-89.59258
Parrish Henderson Cemetery	34.08307	-89.91719
Pine Grove Cemetery	33.87114	-89.57398
Pine Grove Cemetery	33.99667	-89.92329
Pine Spring Cemetery	34.1576	-89.70453
Piney Grove Cemetery	34.07149	-89.62397
Pipkin Cemetery	34.05288	-89.76814
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	33.9265	-89.7073
Rocky Mount Cemetery	34.04205	-89.6323
Saint Andrews Cemetery	34.10649	-89.86675
Salem Cemetery	34.09122	-89.7548
Sardinia Cemetery	34.11649	-89.84342
Sayles Cemetery	34.05038	-89.86397
Scobey Cemetery	33.94177	-89.86786
Shiloh Cemetery	34.03538	-89.7023
Spring Hill Cemetery	34.12372	-89.77286
Stevens Cemetery	33.86983	-89.68897
Swearengen Cemetery	34.03317	-89.86421
Sylva Rena Cemetery	34.12455	-89.73008
Tabernacle Cemetery	34.06983	-89.52813
Union Cemetery	33.99515	-89.88733
Union Hill Cemetery	34.09427	-89.69175
Walton Cemetery	33.89233	-89.7323
Wilbourn Cemetery	33.89066	-89.7398
Williams Cemetery	33.91622	-89.72369
Wilson Cemetery	34.10566	-89.52619
Wyatt Chapel Cemetery	34.12566	-89.58841

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Yocona Ridge	34.13372	-89.88592

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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