Lawrence County, Mississippi, United States

Details for Lawrence County

Name

Lawrence County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Monticello (Supervisor District 1)

Coordinates

Latitude		31.5737801		31° 34' 25.6" N
Longitude		-90.1106413		90° 06' 38.3" W

Population

12,458

Elevation

61 m

Surrounding Counties

Simpson NE
Jefferson Davis E
Marion SE
Walthall S
Pike SW
Lincoln W
Copiah NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695762

Histopolis Place ID

925899007

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Lawrence County

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1550 (27 Aug 2009)

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

The Political Graveyard: Lawrence 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/LW.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Lawrence County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Lawrence County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/Lawrence/ (9 Dec 2009)

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

Lawrence County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Lawrence 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=19909 (16 Nov 2008)

Cemeteries in or near Lawrence County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19909&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (27 Dec 2008)

USGenWeb Archives - Lawrence County, MS [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/lawrence.htm (8 Feb 2010)

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Surveys in Lawrence County

2 Surveys, 5 Ranges, 17 Townships

The Saint Stephens Meridian and Washington Meridian surveys govern land descriptions in all or part of Lawrence County. You can navigate to any of the 17 survey townships that overlap Lawrence County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of Lawrence County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of Lawrence County

3 Towns, 18 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Arm	Bristers Store	Ferguson	Hardscrabble (historical u.p.)
Hooker	Jayess	Lamberts Store	Monticello (town)
New Hebron (town)	Nola	Oak Vale	Oma
Robinwood	Rosella	Silver Creek (town)	Sontag
Tilton	Topeka	Tryus	Verna
Wanilla

Cemeteries of Lawrence County

18 Cemeteries

Armstrong	Benson	Bozeman	Buckey
Cliburn	Dampeer	Droummonds	Fair Hill
Hepzibah	North Pleasant Hill	Sauls	Sauls Valley
Scarber	Sills	Smith	Stephens
Stringer	Wilson

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