County Resources:
Mississippi
Statehood: 10 Dec 1817
20th state of the United States
Bordering states:
North: Tennessee
South: Louisiana
East: Alabama
West: Arkansas, Louisiana
Capital and largest city: Jackson
Map: Mississippi, 1820
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Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Institutions, Societies, and Government Websites
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Additional Websites
Abstracts of Wills of Noxubee County, Mississippi
Historical Markers and War Memorials in Mississippi
Maps
Mississippi Maps, Library of Congress
Mississippi Landowner Maps, Library of Congress
Interactive Map of Mississippi County Formation History, Maps of U.S.
Historical Maps Works: Mississippi
Manuscripts
Mississippi Manuscripts, Archive Grid
Mississippi Manuscripts, Library of Congress
Record Sets-State Level
Mississippi Record Sets (Ancestry Collections)
Mississippi Record Sets (Family Search)
Virtual Libraries
State of Mississippi
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, vol. 1, Goodspeed Brothers, 1891.
A History of Mississippi,From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis, William H. McCardle, 1891.
Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, vol. 10, 1909.
Newspapers
Newspapers Archive: Mississippi
Chronicling America, digitized: Mississippi
Community History Archive Newspapers: Mississippi
Small Town Newspapers
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Mississippi Counties:
Original counties as listed in the 1817 Mississippi Constitution: Article 6, Schedule, Sect. 8: Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Marion, Pike, Warren, Wayne, and Wilkinson. Mississippi County Creation Dates and Parent Counties.
Counties in 2020: 82.