Mississippi

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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Most of present-day Mississippi was part of Georgia until the south-central portions of Mississippi and Alabama were established as Mississippi Territory, authorized by Congress in 1798 and agreed to by Georgia in 1802. In 1804, the Territory was expanded to include the northern parts of the two future States. The Gulf Coast portions were added in 1812, although still in dispute with Spain until 1819. Mississippi was admitted as a State on December 10, 1817 with essentially its present boundaries.

Federal Census Summary

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Census coverage of present-day Mississippi began in 1800 in the southwestern section close to the Mississippi River. The populations shown for 1800 and 1810 exclude counties now in Alabama. The central and northern portions were not fully covered by the census until 1840.

1790: ---	1800: 7,600	1810: 31,306	1820: 75,448	1830: 136,621	1840: 375,651	1850: 606,526	1860: 791,305
1870: 827,922	1880: 1,131,597	1890: 1,289,600	1900: 1,551,270	1910: 1,797,114	1920: 1,790,618	1930: 2,009,821	1940: 2,183,796
1950: 2,178,914	1960: 2,178,141	1970: 2,216,912	1980: 2,520,638	1990: 2,573,216	2000: 2,844,658

Counties
Adams Alcorn Amite Attala Benton Bolivar Calhoun Carroll Chickasaw Choctaw Claiborne Clarke Clay Coahoma Copiah Covington DeSoto Forrest Franklin George	Greene Grenada Hancock Harrison Hinds Holmes Humphreys Issaquena Itawamba Jackson Jasper Jefferson Jefferson Davis Jones Kemper Lafayette Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Leake	Lee Leflore Lincoln Lowndes Madison Marion Marshall Monroe Montgomery Neshoba Newton Noxubee Oktibbeha Panola Pearl River Perry Pike Pontotoc Prentiss Quitman Rankin	Scott Sharkey Simpson Smith Stone Sunflower Tallahatchie Tate Tippah Tishomingo Tunica Union Walthall Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wilkinson Winston Yalobusha Yazoo

State Resources

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Mississippi Genealogy & History @ American History & Genealogy Project.
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State Projects Page
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The Mississippi 1885 Atlas and Gazetteer
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The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, Mississippi
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Mississippi African American History
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National Register of Historical Places - MISSISSIPPI (MS)
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Mississippi Genealogy Network
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Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Access Genealogy: A Free Genealogy Resource
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References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.