DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States

Details for DeSoto County

Name

DeSoto County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Hernando (Supervisor District 5)

Coordinates

Latitude		34.9248171		34° 55' 29.3" N
Longitude		-89.9903686		89° 59' 25.3" W

Population

67,910

Elevation

103 m

Surrounding Counties

Shelby (Tennessee) N
Marshall E
Tate S
Tunica SW
Crittenden (Arkansas) NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695741

Histopolis Place ID

720666002

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for DeSoto County

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

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

The Political Graveyard: DeSoto 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/DS.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1528 (25 Aug 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > De Soto County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > De Soto County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/De_Soto/ (20 Dec 2009)

DeSoto County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
DeSoto 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=19839 (16 Nov 2008)

USGenWeb Archives - DeSoto County, MS [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/desoto.htm (7 Feb 2010)

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

Cemeteries in or near DeSoto County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19839&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (19 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in DeSoto County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 21 Townships

The Chickasaw Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of DeSoto County. You can navigate to any of the 21 survey townships that overlap DeSoto County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of DeSoto County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of DeSoto County

4 Cities, 1 Town, 42 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Aldens	Alphaba	Barnesville	Blue Goose (historical u.p.)
Bright	Buena Vista Lakes	Cedarview	Cockrum
Cub Lake	Days	De Soto Village	Deans Corner
Eudora	Fairhaven	Glover	Handy Corner
Hernando (city)	Holly Hills	Horn Lake (city)	Ingrams Mill
Jago	Lake Cormorant	Lake View	Lewisburg
Love	Lynchburg	Marienette	Maywood
Miller	Mineral Wells	Nesbit	Norfolk
Olive Branch (city)	Penton	Pleasant Hill (Supervisor District 2)	Pleasant Hill (Supervisor District 4)
Plum Point	Robinson Gin	Southaven (city)	Southhaven
Stonewall	Trinity	Twin Lakes	Walls
Walls Town (town)	West Days	Wilco Estates

Cemeteries of DeSoto County

45 Cemeteries, 3 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Avery Chapel	Bakers Chapel	Bass	Bethel
Bethlehem	Blocker	Botts	Castleberry
Center Hill	Center Point	Clemonts	Cowan
Cox	Drain Family	Enon Springs	Fairview
Farley	Fountain Head	Halliburton	Ingram
Jaybird	Jeremiah	Kelly	Kelsey
Knights	Love	Macedonia	McGehee
Mills Family	Mount Austin	Mount Olive	Mt. Austin (*)
Mt. Olive (*)	Nesbit	New Bethany (Hernando, Supervisor District 5)	New Bethany (Supervisor District 5)
New Bethlehem	New Hope	Old Love	Perry
Phoenix	Saint Thomas	Shiloh	Spring Hill
St. Thomas (*)	Whites Chapel	Wiggins	Winbourn

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