Rankin County, Mississippi, United States

Details for Rankin County

Name

Rankin County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Brandon (Supervisor District 4)

Coordinates

Latitude		32.2643137		32° 15' 51.5" N
Longitude		-90.0406397		90° 02' 26.3" W

Population

87,161

Elevation

97 m

Surrounding Counties

Leake NE
Scott E
Smith SE
Simpson SE
Copiah SW
Hinds W
Madison N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695781

Histopolis Place ID

381382257

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Rankin County

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

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

Rankin County, Mississippi County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Rankin County, Mississippi, MS - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19987 (20 Aug 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=1572 (30 Aug 2009)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Rankin County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Rankin County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/Rankin/ (31 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Rankin County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=19987&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (13 Jan 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Rankin 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/RA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

USGenWeb Archives - Rankin County, MS [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/rankin.htm (9 Feb 2010)

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

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Surveys in Rankin County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 31 Townships

The Choctaw Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Rankin County. You can navigate to any of the 31 survey townships that overlap Rankin County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of Rankin County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of Rankin County

5 Cities, 2 Towns, 1 Village, 111 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Abernathy (historical u.p.)	Alonzo	Anse	Arrowhead Point
Ashland Estates	Audubon Point	Bafrick (historical u.p.)	Barnes Prairie
Bates Park	Belaire	Bellegrove	Belpine
Bilbros Corner	Brandon (city)	Bridlewood	Burnham (historical u.p.)
Castlewoods	Cato	Cedar Point	Clear Branch
Cleary	Cleary Heights	Comeby (historical u.p.)	The Commons
Country Place	Creekwood Place	Cross Roads	Crossgates
Cunningham Heights	Dane (historical u.p.)	Dobson (historical u.p.)	Dogwood Place
Easthaven	Eureka	Fannin	Fink Bine (historical u.p.)
Florence (town)	Flowood (city)	Forest Point	Forty (historical u.p.)
Galilee	George (historical u.p.)	Goshen Springs	Grandview Heights
Greenfield	Grove Park	Gulde	Harbourview
Hickory Glen	Howell (historical u.p.)	Hunters Woods	Jackson (city)
Joe (historical u.p.)	Johns	King	Kings Heights
Koch	Lakeland	Lakeshore	Langford
Leesburg	Linden (historical u.p.)	Luckney	Lynwood (historical u.p.)
Mayton	McLaurin Heights	Melvin Heights	Mill Creek
Mill Creek Corners	Mill Creek Place	Millrun	Milro (historical u.p.)
Monterey	Moseley (historical u.p.)	Mountain Creek (historical u.p.)	New Fannin
Northwoods	Ophelia (historical u.p.)	Paradise Point	Pat
Patton Place	Pearl (city)	Pearson	Pelahatchie (town)
Pelahatchie Woods	Pine Park	Piney Woods	Pisgah
Plain	Plainview	Puckett (village)	Randall Place
Rankin	Ratliff	Richland (city)	Richland Estates
Richmond (historical u.p.)	Rock Hill	Rufus	Sand Hill
Shady Dell (historical u.p.)	Sherwood Forest	Shiloh (historical u.p.)	Sinai
Skyway Hills	Star	Summerwood	Sunrise Point
Terrapin Hill	Thomasville	Timber Lakes	Turtle Creek
Value	Waterwood	Wells	West Leesburg
Whites	Whitfield	Woodlake

Cemeteries of Rankin County

110 Cemeteries, 9 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Andrew Chapel	Antioch	Barefoot Springs	Barnett
Bethel	Brandon	Brandon Memory Gardens	Briar Hill
Brown Hill	Burnham	Campbellite	Cato
Clear Branch	Cleary	Concord	County Line
Crossroads	David Thomas	Drakes	Dry Creek
Eastside	Enoch Grove	Eureka	Evergreen
Fannin	Fannin	Fannin	Farris Hill
Flora Hills	Florence	Friendship	Goodhope
Goshen Springs Pilgrim Branch	Greenfield	Gulde	Hebron Hill
Hollybush	Jerusalem	Johns	Jordan Grove
Leesburg	Lewis	Liberty	Little Zion
Lodebar	Lone Pine	Mays	McLaurin
Middleton Field	Midway	Miracle Temple	Morning Star
Mount Carmel	Mount Elam	Mount Helm Cemetery Number One	Mount Olive
Mount Pisgah	Mount Zion	Mountain Creek	Mountain Ridge
Mt. Carmel (*)	Mt. Elam (*)	Mt. Helm Cemetery Number One (*)	Mt. Olive (*)
Mt. Pisgah (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Neal	New Hope
New Pisgah	Oak Grove	Oakdale	Old Brandon
Old Mount Zion	Old Mt. Zion (*)	Old Sea	Old Taylor Hill
Pearly Grove	Pearson	Pelahatchie (Pelahatchie, Supervisor District 4)	Pelahatchie (Supervisor District 4)
Pilgrim Rest	Piney Woods	Pisgah	Pleasant Grove
Poplar Springs	Prospect	Puckett	Reagan
Rehobeth	Richland	Rockhill	Rosehill
Ross	Russel	Saint Hill	Saint Matthew
Salem	Sandhill	Shady Grove	Shiloh
Silverena	Sinai	Smith	Spring Hill
St. Hill (*)	St. Matthew (*)	Star	Steen
Thornhill	True Light	True Light	True Vine
Union (Supervisor District 2)	Union (Supervisor District 3)	Walters Grove	Wesleyanna
Whittington	Williams	Zion Hill

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