Mississippi County, Missouri, United States

Details for Mississippi County

Name

Mississippi County

Place Type

County

Located in

Missouri, United States

County Seat

Charleston (Tywappity Township)

Established

1845

Coordinates

Latitude		36.8167214		36° 49' 00.2" N
Longitude		-89.3167398		89° 19' 00.3" W

Population

14,442

Elevation

93 m

Surrounding Counties

Alexander (Illinois) N
Pulaski (Illinois) N
Ballard (Kentucky) NE
Carlisle (Kentucky) E
Hickman (Kentucky) SE
Fulton (Kentucky) SE
Obion (Tennessee) S
New Madrid SW
Scott NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

758521

Histopolis Place ID

523217661

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Mississippi County

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Mississippi County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Mississippi County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Mississippi/ (17 Jun 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Mississippi County, Mo. [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/MO/MS.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Mississippi County, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_County,_Missouri (28 Jul 2010)

USGenWeb Archives MO Mississippi Co. Cemetery Records [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mississippi/misscem.html (12 Dec 2009)

Mississippi County, Missouri MO, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Mississippi County, Missouri MO, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20499 (17 Nov 2008)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1463 (30 Aug 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Mississippi County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20499&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (14 Jan 2009)

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Surveys in Mississippi County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 23 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Mississippi County. You can navigate to any of the 23 survey townships that overlap Mississippi County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Mississippi County

7 Townships

James Bayou	Long Prairie	Mississippi	Ohio
Saint James	Tywappity	Wolf Island

Cities of Mississippi County

5 Cities, 1 Town, 2 Villages, 32 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Airline Acres	Alfalfa Center	Anniston (town)	Baldwinsville
Belmont Landing	Bertrand (city)	Birds Point	Buckeye
Catalpa	Charleston (city)	Coulter	Crosno
Deventer	Dogwood	Dorena	Dorena Landing
East Prairie (city)	Fuget	Greenfield	Hallett (historical u.p.)
Henson	Hopewell	Hough	Miner (city)
Never Spur (historical u.p.)	Norfolk (historical u.p.)	Oak Grove	Ohio City
Pinhook (village)	Pulltight	Rumsey Spur (historical u.p.)	Rushs Ridge
Samos	Texas Bend	Thirtyfour Corner	Three States
Whiting	Wilson City (village)	Wolf Island	Wyatt (city)

Cemeteries of Mississippi County

18 Cemeteries

Allen	Armour	Barker	Barnes
Bird	Boston (historical cemetery)	Calhoun (historical cemetery)	Cooley (historical cemetery)
Griggs	Ivie	Lee (Tywappity Township)	Lee (Wolf Island Township)
Oak Grove	O'Bryan	Texas Bend	Thompson
Travis	Wolf Island

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