Prentiss County, Mississippi, United States

Details for Prentiss County

Name

Prentiss County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Booneville

Coordinates

Latitude		34.6320402		34° 37' 55.3" N
Longitude		-88.5578293		88° 33' 28.2" W

Population

23,278

Elevation

149 m

Surrounding Counties

Alcorn N
Tishomingo E
Itawamba S
Lee S
Union W
Tippah NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695779

Histopolis Place ID

493168255

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Prentiss 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=1570 (30 Aug 2009)

Prentiss County Archives - [USGenWeb Archives]
Archives of Genealogy Records for DeSoto County
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/prentiss.htm (1 Feb 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Prentiss County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Prentiss County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/Prentiss/ (6 May 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Prentiss County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19982&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (2 Jan 2009)

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

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

Prentiss County, Mississippi MS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Prentiss 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=19982 (16 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Prentiss 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/PS.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Prentiss County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 16 Townships

The Chickasaw Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Prentiss County. You can navigate to any of the 16 survey townships that overlap Prentiss County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of Prentiss County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of Prentiss County

2 Cities, 2 Towns, 22 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Altitude	Baldwyn (city)	Blackland	Blythes Chapel
Booneville (city)	Burton	Bynum	Cairo
East Prentiss	Frankstown	Gaston	Geeville
Hazeldell	Hills Chapel	Hobo Station	Jumpertown (town)
Lake City	Lebanon	Marietta (town)	New Hope
New Site	Osborne Creek	Pisgah	Sunflower
Thrasher	Wheeler

Cemeteries of Prentiss County

83 Cemeteries, 6 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Armstrong	Asbury	Blackland	Blythes Chapel
Booneville	Brumley	Bullard	Cains Chapel
Campground	Candler Chapel	Carolina	Carter
Casey Creek	Caveness	Clausel Hill	Dodds
East Marietta	East Pleasant Ridge	East Prentiss	Everett
Fairview	Fondren	Forked Oak	Freewill
Friendship (Booneville, Supervisor District 1)	Friendship (Supervisor District 4)	Gaston	Harden
Hill	Hodges Chapel	Holley	Hopewell
Ingram	Jones	Jones Chapel	Jumpertown (Jumpertown, Supervisor District 2)
Jumpertown (Supervisor District 2)	Lakeview	Lebanon	Liberty
Little Brown	Marietta	Martin Hill	Massey
Meadow Creek	Morton Chapel	Mount Carmel	Mount Nebo
Mount Olive (Supervisor District 1)	Mount Olive (Supervisor District 3)	Mount Pisgah	Mount Pleasant
Mt. Carmel (*)	Mt. Nebo (*)	Mt. Olive (* Supervisor District 1)	Mt. Olive (* Supervisor District 3)
Mt. Pisgah (*)	Mt. Pleasant (*)	New Candler	New Hope
Oak Hill (Booneville, Supervisor District 2)	Oak Hill (Supervisor District 2)	Oaklawn Memorial Park	Old County Home
Old Mackeys Creek	Osborne	Piney Grove	Pisgah
Pitts	Pleasant Grove	Pleasant Valley	Prentiss County Memorial Gardens
Prospect	Rhoads	Rhodes	Rienzi
Rubens Chapel	Saucer Creek	Shady Grove	Sheppard
Siloam	Smith (Supervisor District 1)	Smith (Supervisor District 5)	Smith-Howell
Snowdown	Walden	Williams	Wolf Creek
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