Forrest County, Mississippi, United States

Details for Forrest County

Name

Forrest County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Hattiesburg

Coordinates

Latitude		31.3143416		31° 18' 51.6" N
Longitude		-89.2942283		89° 17' 39.2" W

Population

68,314

Elevation

49 m

Surrounding Counties

Jones N
Perry E
Stone S
Pearl River SW
Lamar SW
Covington NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695742

Histopolis Place ID

191004064

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Forrest County

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

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

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Forrest County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Forrest County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/Forrest/ (27 Apr 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Forrest 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/FO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Forrest County MS - Welcome
Forrest County, MS official site. Based in Hattiesburg.
http://www.forrestcountyms.us/main/ (26 Aug 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Forrest County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19858&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (27 Dec 2008)

USGenWeb Archives - Forrest County, MS [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/forrest.htm (5 Feb 2010)

Forrest County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Forrest 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=19858 (16 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=1529 (27 Aug 2009)

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Surveys in Forrest County

1 Survey, 4 Ranges, 15 Townships

The Saint Stephens Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Forrest County. You can navigate to any of the 15 survey townships that overlap Forrest County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of Forrest County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of Forrest County

2 Cities, 53 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Barron Point	Barrontown	Batson	Bedford Woods
Bonhomie	Bowie	Brooklyn	Carnes
Carterville	Country Club Estates	Currie	Dixie (Supervisor District 1)
Dixie (Supervisor District 5)	Dixie Pine	Dragon	Eastside
Eatonville	Epps	Forrest Park	Four Points
Fruitland Park	Glendale	Goodluck	Harvey
Hattiesburg (city)	Heatherwood Estates	Innswood	Innswood South
Kirkwood Park	Leeville	Macedonia	Mars Hill
Maxie	Maybank	McCallum	McLaurin
Morriston	Palmers Crossing	Petal (city)	Pine Grove
Pistol Ridge	Providence	Ragland	Ralston
Rawls Springs	Regency Estates	Richburg Heights	Riverside
Rock Hill	Sharon Acres	Sunrise	Wallis
Westwood	Woodhaven	Woodlawn Court

Cemeteries of Forrest County

60 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Anderson (Supervisor District 1)	Anderson (Supervisor District 5)	Barlow	Batson
Battson	Bennett	B'nai Israel	Brooklyn
Burkett	Cameron	Chappell	Clark
Community	Davis	Dixie	Eaton
Edmonson	Enon	Entrekin	Epps
Eureka	Forrest Memorial Gardens	Gillis	Granny Bounds
Grant	Griffin	Heidelberg	Highland
Hillcrest	Hudson	J E Bounds Memorial	Jones
Jordan	Kelly	Lancaster	Lott
Lott	McKenzie-Myers	Mineral Springs	Morriston
Newman	Oaklawn	Odoms	Old Leeville
Petal	Pine Grove	Pine Ridge	Pleasant Hill
Quick	Rawls	Rawls Springs Baptist Church	Riverview
Rock Hill	Rock Hill Church (historical cemetery)	Roseland Park	Runnels
Saint Paul	Seal	Simmons	South Hill
St. Paul (*)

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