Benton County, Mississippi, United States

Details for Benton County

Name

Benton County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Ashland (Supervisor District 3)

Coordinates

Latitude		34.8214834		34° 49' 17.3" N
Longitude		-89.1906255		89° 11' 26.3" W

Population

8,046

Elevation

175 m

Surrounding Counties

Hardeman (Tennessee) NE
Tippah E
Union SE
Lafayette SW
Marshall W
Fayette (Tennessee) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695729

Histopolis Place ID

709858134

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Benton County

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

The Political Graveyard: Benton County, Miss. [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/MS/BE.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Benton County, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_County,_Mississippi

Benton County Mississippi Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemeteries of Benton County Mississippi
http://www.interment.net/us/ms/benton.htm (16 May 2010)

Benton County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Benton County, Mississippi MS, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19802 (16 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Benton County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Benton County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/Benton/ (11 Jan 2010)

The USGenWeb Archives Project - Benton County, MS TOC [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/benton.htm (9 Feb 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=1516 (27 Aug 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Benton County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19802&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (24 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in Benton County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 20 Townships

The Chickasaw Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Benton County. You can navigate to any of the 20 survey townships that overlap Benton County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of Benton County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of Benton County

3 Towns, 12 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Ashland (town)	Bethel	Black Jack	Brody
Canaan	Hamilton	Hickory Flat (town)	Hopewell
Lamar	Michigan City	New Canaan	Pine Grove
Snow Lake Shores (town)	Spring Hill	Winborn

Cemeteries of Benton County

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

Ashland	Ashland	Ayers	Beech Hill
Beldorah	Bethel	Bethlehem	Black Jack
Bluff Springs	Bogard	Bryant	Camp Hill
Canaan	Clayton	Collins	Curtis Creek
Duncan	Elliott	Flat Rock	Fleet
Friendship	Gorman	Governor Matthews	Greenwood
Hamer	Hamilton	Hardaway (Supervisor District 1)	Hardaway (Supervisor District 2)
Harmony	Hickory Hill	Hill	Hines
Hopewell (Supervisor District 1)	Hopewell (Supervisor District 2)	Hopkins	Howard
Hudspeth	Johnson	Jordan	Liberty
Littleton	Lonoke	Maxwell	McKay
McKee	McKinzie	Medlock	Mitchell
Mount Pleasant	Mount Zion (Supervisor District 3)	Mount Zion (Supervisor District 4)	Mount Zion (Supervisor District 4)
Mt. Pleasant (*)	Mt. Zion (* Supervisor District 3)	Mt. Zion (* Supervisor District 4)	Mt. Zion (* Supervisor District 4)
New Hope	Old Hickory Flat	Old Lamar	Ormans
Palestine	Pine	Pine Grove	Pisgah
Pleasant Hill	Redfern	Robinson	Rynehart
Samuel Chapel	Shawnee	Smith	Tate
Valley Grove	Wesley	Wicker	Worship
Zion Chapel

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