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Yazoo County, Mississippi

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16historic places

—earliest paper

1823formed

26,743pop. 2020

55cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 16 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Yazoo City, Benton, Vaughan.

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

5 of 16 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

16 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Afro-American Sons and Daughters Hospital	Yazoo City	Building	2006
Bull Homestead	Benton	District	2002
Casey Jones Wreck Site	Vaughan	Site	1973
Deasonville Archeological Site	Deasonville	Site	1993
Fairview Landing (22Yz561)	Holly Bluff	Site	1988
Hart, Big John, House	Yazoo City	Building	1993
Holly Bluff Site NHL	Holly Bluff	Site	1966
Home Place	Benton	Building	1988
Lindsey Lawn Apartments	Yazoo City	District	2019
Mosely-Woods House	Yazoo City	Building	2005
Oakes, Augustus J., House	Yazoo City	Building	1993
Ricks Memorial Library	Yazoo City	Building	1975
Rosedale Plantation	Vaughan	Building	2011
Shellwood Site (22YZ600)	Lake City	Site	1986
Woolwine, J.W., Homes	Yazoo City	District	2019
Yazoo City Town Center Historic District	Yazoo City	District	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Yazoo was formed in 1823 (1823-01-21) from Hinds.

YAZOO created from HINDS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Yazoo County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,550	10,480	22,373	33,845	43,948	37,149	40,091	35,712	31,653	27,349	28,149	26,743

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

55 cemeteries and 9 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 55 of 55 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alsop Cemetery	32.83152	-90.12453
Anderson Cemetery	32.88013	-90.06702
Banks Cemetery	32.8479	-90.50425
Blaylock Cemetery	32.76902	-90.14036
Brown Cemetery	32.78902	-90.11369
Bull Cemetery	32.76811	-90.17335
Cage Cemetery	32.69219	-90.36299
Campbellsville Cemetery	32.82929	-90.69926
Central Holmes Cemetery	32.69791	-90.33564
Cessna Cemetery	32.73513	-90.43731
Coopers Cemetery	32.86957	-90.28897
Day Cemetery	32.81235	-90.11369
Days Cemetery	32.67902	-90.26592
Ellison Cemetery	32.76818	-90.14064
Exum Cemetery	32.80707	-90.06897
Hamblin Cemetery	32.6318	-90.50398
Hardshell Cemetery	32.91985	-90.28703
Hart Childress Cemetery	32.56986	-90.57148
Hart Town Cemetery	32.87707	-90.02758
Heard Cemetery	32.81541	-90.12869
Hebron Cemetery	32.56819	-90.51065
Henry Cemetery	32.66319	-90.61926
Hicks Cemetery	32.77124	-90.21814
Hilderbrand Cemetery	32.58124	-90.52148
Hoover Cemetery	32.92763	-90.11675
Hudson Cemetery	32.74013	-90.40036
John Roberson Cemetery	32.85152	-90.50814
Knott Cemetery	32.73346	-90.10564
Lacy Cemetery	32.71728	-90.16643
Locust Grove Cemetery	32.95096	-90.1948
Luce Cemetery	32.82541	-90.20286
Mayday Cemetery	32.86568	-90.50342
McLeod Cemetery	32.63541	-90.50259
Mount Olivet Cemetery	32.6318	-90.50148
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.69402	-90.20842
Mount Zion Cemetery	32.79266	-90.15575
New Zion Cemetery	32.84235	-90.0548
Oak Valley Cemetery	32.76207	-90.55259
Ogden Cemetery	32.6343	-90.48342
Ogden Cemetery	32.63124	-90.45703
Peaster Cemetery	32.82291	-90.05564
Pepper Cemetery	32.79846	-90.12119
Phillips Cemetery	32.9954	-90.38675
Pickett Cemetery	32.7293	-90.1623
Pickett Cemetery	32.83541	-90.23869
Piney Springs Cemetery	32.9604	-90.23008
Riley Cemetery	32.91346	-90.18814
Rucker Cemetery	32.74016	-90.13588
Shannon Cemetery	32.8154	-90.68787
Short Creek Cemetery	32.7718	-90.41564
Smith's Cemetery	32.78791	-90.32508
Strangers Home Cemetery	32.84929	-90.01258
Tanglewood Cemetery	32.85151	-90.6962
Valley Home Cemetery	32.88401	-90.6437
Williams Cemetery	32.85874	-90.12008

Historical populated places — 9 of 9

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethesda	32.83069	-90.32509
Cedar Hill	32.87235	-90.29176
Chethams	32.66403	-90.44454
Claibornesville	32.60153	-90.53621
Dover	32.98763	-90.37092
Hilton	32.83624	-90.33342
Liverpool	32.71319	-90.50148
Pearce	32.89124	-90.34453
Plumville	32.66819	-90.30842

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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