Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States

Details for Mississippi County

Name

Mississippi County

Place Type

County

Located in

Arkansas, United States

County Seat

Blytheville (Chickasawba Township) and Osceola (Monroe Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		35.7667429		35° 46' 00.3" N
Longitude		-90.0500904		90° 03' 00.3" W

Population

57,525

Elevation

70 m

Surrounding Counties

Dunklin (Missouri) N
Pemiscot (Missouri) N
Dyer (Tennessee) NE
Lauderdale (Tennessee) E
Tipton (Tennessee) SE
Shelby (Tennessee) S
Crittenden S
Poinsett W
Craighead W
Greene NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

69899

Histopolis Place ID

864012137

Updated May 12, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Mississippi County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Mississippi County, Arkansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_County,_Arkansas (18 Jul 2010)

Mississippi County, Arkansas Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Mississippi County, Arkansas.
http://www.interment.net/us/ar/mississippi.htm (16 May 2010)

Mississippi County, ARGenWeb Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ar/mississippi/mississippi.htm (9 Jan 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Mississippi County, Ark. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/MS.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Mississippi County, Arkansas AR, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Mississippi County, Arkansas AR, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=11629 (3 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Arkansas > Mississippi County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Arkansas > Mississippi County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/AR/Mississippi/ (2 Jan 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=139 (25 Aug 2009)

Mississippi County, [Arkansas] AR-AHGP Project
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~armissis/mc.htm (27 Mar 2006)

Arkansas Gravestones - Cemetery Index [Arkansas Gravestones]
Research your Arkansas ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Arkansas gravestone photos. Locate Arkansas gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Arkansas roots.
http://arkansasgravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=35 (4 Feb 2011)

Cemeteries in or near Mississippi County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=11629&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (19 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in Mississippi County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 32 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Mississippi County. You can navigate to any of the 32 survey townships that overlap Mississippi County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Mississippi County

23 Townships

Big Lake	Bowen	Burdette	Canadian
Carson	Carson Lake (historical township)	Chickasawba	Clear Lake (historical township)
Dyess	Fletcher	Golden Lake	Half Moon Lake
Hector	Hickman (historical township)	Little River	McGavock
Monroe	Neal	Pecan Point (historical township)	Scott
Swayne (historical township)	Troy (historical township)	Whitton

Cities of Mississippi County

9 Cities, 8 Towns, 107 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Arkmo	Armorel	Athelstan	Bardstown
Barfield	Bassett (town)	Big Lake	Birdsong (town)
Black Cat	Blytheville (city)	Bondsville	Boynton
Brown (historical u.p.)	Buckeye	Burdette (town)	Burton
Butler	Calumet	Carmi	Carrol Corner
Carson Lake	Chelford	Chickasawba	Clear Lake
Clearwater	Cole Ridge	Cottonwood Corner	Deans Island
Dearman	Dell (town)	Delpro	Denwood
Dimple	Dogwood	Driver	Dyess (town)
Eastview	Etowah (town)	Evadale	Floodway
Frenchmans Bayou	Garson	Golden Lake	Gosnell (city)
Grider	Half Moon	Happy Corners	Helfer Landing
Hickman	Hickman Landing	Hightower	Hilton
Holt (historical u.p.)	Huffman	Joiner (city)	Keiser (city)
Leachville (city)	Lemsford	Lennie	Little Green Store
Little River	Lost Cane	Lowden	Luxora (city)
Mandalay	Manila (city)	Marie (town)	McClendons Corner
McFerrin	Midway	Milligan Ridge	Moran
Muir	New Salem	Nodena	Norden
North Sabie (historical u.p.)	Number Nine	O'Donnell Bend	Orr (historical u.p.)
Osceola (city)	Pace	Paepcke (historical u.p.)	Pawheen
Pecan Point	Pettyville	Poplar Corner	Promised Land
Red Line	Rokey	Rosa	Roseland
Rotan	Roy	Saint Thomas	Sans Souci
Shady Grove	Shawnee	Shippen	Shonyo (historical u.p.)
Sims (historical u.p.)	Springfield (historical u.p.)	Spur Four	Stark City
Three Way	Toluca	Tomato	Tuckertown
Turner	Upper Nodena (historical u.p.)	Vail	Victoria (town)
Walters	Wardell	West Ridge	Westover
Whisp	Whistleville	Whitton	Wilson (city)
Wilson Junction	Wolverton (historical u.p.)	Woodland Corner	Yarbro

Cemeteries of Mississippi County

62 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

African Methodist Episcopal	Ashburn	Bassett	Bowden
Box Elder	Brinkley	Buckner	Carson
Citizen	Driver	Elmwood	Ermen Lane
Gant	Golden Lake	Harston	Hatcher
Hatchie	Hawkins	Hill	Jacob
Lane	Little Bethlehem	Locust Grove	Locust Grove
Louise	Macedonia	Manchester	Mann
Mann	Maple Grove	McFadden	Memorial Park
Mississippi County Memorial Gardens	Mooney	Mount Olive	Mount Pisby
Mount Zion	Mt. Olive (*)	Mt. Pisby (*)	Mt. Zion (*)
New Hope	New Salem	Nodena	North Sawba
Number Nine	Pittman	Pleasant Grove	Pleasant Ridge
Rosa	Rupe	Saint Marys	Sandy Ridge
Sawyer	Shady Grove	Spur	St. Marys (*)
Steger	Three Way	Union Valley	Uzzell
Violet	Walker	Ward	Whitton
Wilkerson	Zion Rock

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