Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States

Details for Yazoo County

Name

Yazoo County

Place Type

County

Located in

Mississippi, United States

County Seat

Yazoo City

Coordinates

Latitude		32.8254112		32° 49' 31.5" N
Longitude		-90.3784243		90° 22' 42.3" W

Population

25,506

Elevation

79 m

Surrounding Counties

Holmes NE
Attala E
Madison SE
Hinds S
Warren SW
Issaquena W
Sharkey W
Humphreys N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

695802

Histopolis Place ID

102051008

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Yazoo County

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

The USGenWeb Archives Project - Yazoo County, MS TOC [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ms/yazoo.htm (2 Feb 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1593 (27 Aug 2009)

Yazoo County, Mississippi County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Yazoo County, Mississippi, MS - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20057 (16 Dec 2009)

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

The Political Graveyard: Yazoo 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/YA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Yazoo County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Mississippi > Yazoo County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MS/Yazoo/ (10 Jan 2010)

Yazoo County, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazoo_County,_Mississippi (6 Feb 2011)

Cemeteries in or near Yazoo County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20057&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (27 Dec 2008)

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Surveys in Yazoo County

1 Survey, 8 Ranges, 36 Townships

The Choctaw Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Yazoo County. You can navigate to any of the 36 survey townships that overlap Yazoo County using the navigation tool below.

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Supervisor Districts of Yazoo County

5 Supervisor Districts

1	2	3	4
5

Cities of Yazoo County

1 City, 1 Town, 2 Villages, 61 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Anding	Bayland	Belle Prairie (Supervisor District 4)	Belle Prairie (Supervisor District 5)
Benton	Bentonia (town)	Berryville	Bethesda (historical u.p.)
Campbellville	Carter	Cedar Hill (historical u.p.)	Chethams (historical u.p.)
Claibornesville (historical u.p.)	Colby	Crump	Crupp
Deasonville	Dover (historical u.p. in Supervisor District 5)	Dover (Supervisor District 1)	Eden (village)
Ellwood Landing	Enola	Evans	Fairview Landing
Fordyke	Free Run	Fugate	George
Germania	Hilton (historical u.p.)	Holly Bluff	Horn Place Landing
Jonestown	Kansas Landing	Kearney	Lake City
Limerick	Linwood	Little Yazoo	Liverpool (historical u.p.)
Loch Lomond	Mechanicsburg	Midway	Myrleville
Nod	Norway	Oil City	Patosi
Pearce (historical u.p.)	Phoenix	Pierce Crossroad	Plumville (historical u.p.)
Renshaw	Roadside	Satartia (village)	Scotland
Scotland Fork	Tinsley	Valley	Vaughan
Woodlawn	Yazoo (city)	Yazoo Junction	Zeiglerville
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Cemeteries of Yazoo County

56 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Alsop	Anderson	Banks	Bethel Black Jack Baptist Church
Black Jack (*)	Blaylock	Brown	Bull
Cage	Campbellsville	Central Holmes	Cessna
Coopers	Day	Days	Ellison
Exum	Hamblin	Hardshell	Hart Childress
Hart Town	Heard	Hebron	Henry
Hicks	Hilderbrand	Hoover	Hudson
John Roberson	Knott	Lacy	Locust Grove
Luce	Mayday	McLeod	Mount Olivet
Mount Zion (Supervisor District 1)	Mount Zion (Supervisor District 2)	Mt. Olivet (*)	Mt. Zion (* Supervisor District 1)
Mt. Zion (* Supervisor District 2)	New Zion	Oak Valley	Ogden
Ogden	Peaster	Pepper	Phillips
Pickett (Supervisor District 1)	Pickett (Supervisor District 2)	Piney Springs	Riley
Rucker	Shannon	Short Creek	Smith's
Strangers Home	Tanglewood	Valley Home	Williams

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