MSGenWeb - Table of Counties

County	Date Created	Parent County	County Seat	County Coordinator(s)
Adams	1799	Natchez District	Natchez	Carolyn Switzer
Alcorn	1870	Tippah / Tishomingo	Corinth	Jeff Kemp
Amite	1809	Wilkinson	Liberty	John Cain
Attala	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Kosciusko	Everette Carr
Bainbridge	1823 - 1824	Historic - Created from Covington Co. Merged back into Covington Co in 1824	-	-
Benton	1870	Marshall / Tippah	Ashland	Melissa McCoy-Bell
Bolivar	1836	Choctaw Cession Of 1830	Cleveland & Rosedale	Debbie Leftwich
Bourbon	1785 - 1788	Historic - Area of current Adams and Wilkinson County. Formed as early part of the Yazoo Land Faud.	-	-
Calhoun	1852	Chickasaw / Lafayette / Yalobusha	Pittsboro	Rose Diamond
Carroll	1833	Choctaw Cession	Carrollton & Vaiden	Ann Geoghegan, Coordinator Leo "Buddy" Pergson, Asst. Coordinator
Chickasaw	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1830	Houston & Okolona	Jackie Rhodes
Choctaw	1833	Choctaw Cession	Ackerman	Jackie Rhodes
Claiborne	1802	Jefferson	Port Gibson	Ann Geoghegan
Clarke	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Quitman	Kathy Murray
Clay	1871	Chickasaw / Lowndes /Monroe / Oktibbeha	West Point	Everette Carr
Coahoma	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1836	Clarksdale	Flo Larson
Colfax	1871 - 1876	Historic - Created from Chickasaw, Lowndes, Monroe, & Oktibbeha in 1871. Named changed to Clay in 1876.	-	-
Copiah	1823	Hinds	Hazlehurst	Bob Crawford
Covington	1819	Lawrence / Wayne	Collins	Kimberlie Groth
Davis	1865 - 1869	Historic - Jones Co changed name to Davis in 1865, back to Jones in 1869	-	-
DeSoto	1836	Indian Lands	Hernando	Tim Harrison
Forrest	1906	Perry	Hattiesburg	Pam Gibbs
Franklin	1809	Adams	Meadville	Carolyn Switzer
George	1910	Greene / Jackson	Lucedale	Jerrie Mason
Greene	1811	Amite / Franklin / Wayne	Leakesville	Ann Geoghegan
Grenada	1870	Carroll / Yalobusha / Montgomery /Tallahatchie / Webster / Choctaw	Grenada	Dorian Jefferson
Hancock	1812	Mobile District	Bay Saint Louis	Denise Wells
Harrison	1841	Hancock / Jackson	Gulfport & Biloxi	Peggy Bass
Hinds	1821	Choctaw Cession of 1820	Jackson & Raymond	Jane Combs
Holmes	1833	Yazoo	Lexington	Gigi Tanksley
Humphreys	1918	Holmes / Washington /Yazoo / Sunflower	Belzoni	Betty Aron-Schneider
Issaquena	1844	Washington	Mayersville	Kathy Murray
Itawamba	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Fulton	Celeste Thrower
Jackson	1812	Mobile District	Pascagoula	Pat Creel, Coordinator Brenda Waltman Knippers, Asst. Coordinator
Jasper	1833	Indian Lands	Bay Springs & Paulding	Fawn Spencer
Jefferson	1799	Natchez	Fayette	Ann Geoghegan
Jefferson Davis	1906	Covington / Lawrence	Prentiss	Pamela Dyess Mann
Jones	1826	Covington / Wayne	Laurel & Ellisville	Diane Payne
Kemper	Choctaw Cession of 1830	De Kalb		Marsha Bryant
Lafayette	1836	Chickasaw Cession	Oxford	Evelyn Crocker
Lamar	1904	Marion / Pearl River	Purvis	Pam Gibbs
Lauderdale	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1833	Meridian	Bill White, coordinator Anna White, ACC Laurence Mangiapane, ACC
Lawrence	1814	Marion	Monticello	Dennis Partridge
Leake	1833	Choctaw Cession	Carthage	Bruce Reeves
Lee	1866	Itawamba / Pontotoc	Tupelo	Celeste Thrower
Leflore	1871	Carroll / Sunflower / Tallahatchie	Greenwood	Betty Aron-Schneider
Lincoln	1870	Franklin / Lawrence /Copiah / Pike / Amite	Brookhaven	Virginia Zeigler
Lowndes	1830	Monroe	Columbus	Clare Herrick, coordinator Ruth Ann Farris, ACC
Madison	1828	Yazoo	Canton	Ann Geoghegan
Marion	1811	Amite / Wayne / Franklin	Columbia	Shannon Gorman
Marshall	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Holly Springs	Deb Haines
Monroe	1821	Chickasaw Cession of 1821	Aberdeen	Chris & Dawn Jackson
Montgomery	1871	Carroll / Choctaw	Winona	Sandy Ward
Neshoba	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Philadelphia	LeFloris Lyon
Newton	1836	Neshoba	Decatur	LeFloris Lyon
Noxubee	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Macon	Annette Rose, Coordinator Robby Taylor, Asst. Coordinator
Oktibbeha	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Starkville	Clare Herrick, Coordinator Mona Tomlinson, ACC
Panola	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1830	Batesville & Sardis	Cynthia Samples
Pearl River	1890	Hancock / Marion	Poplarville	Available for adoption. statecoordinator@msgenweb.org
Perry	1820	Greene	New Augusta	Pam Gibbs
Pickering	1799 - 1802	Historic - Claiborne formed from Pickering, and name changed to Jefferson in 1802.	-	-
Pike	1815	Marion	Magnolia	Sue Wright
Pontotoc	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Pontotoc	Peggy Young
Prentiss	1870	Tishomingo	Booneville	Jeff Kemp
Quitman	1877	Panola / Coahoma	Marks	Available for adoption. statecoordinator@msgenweb.org
Rankin	1828	Hinds	Brandon	Jane Combs
Scott	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1832	Forest	Gayle Triller
Sharkey	1876	Warren / Washington / Issaquena	Rolling Fork	Edward A. Black
Simpson	1824	Choctaw Cession of 1820	Mendenhall	Gerald Westmoreland
Smith	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Raleigh	Kathy Murray
Stone	1916	Harrison	Wiggins	Tina Vickery
Sumner	1874 - 1882	Historic - Created from Montgomery, Chickasaw, Choctaw Counties in 1874, and part of Oktibbeha in 1875. Name changed to Webster in 1882.	-	-
Sunflower	1844	Bolivar	Indianola	Betty Aron-Schneider
Tallahatchie	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Charleston & Sumner	Helen Arnold, Coordinator Lela Evans, Asst. Coordinator
Tate	1873	Marshall / Tunica / DeSoto	Senatobia	Marie Carlton, Coordinator Syble Embrey, Asst. Coordinator
Tippah	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Ripley	Melissa McCoy-Bell
Tishomingo	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Iuka	Jeff Kemp
Tunica	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Tunica	Available for adoption. statecoordinator@msgenweb.org
Union	1870	Pontotoc /Tippah	New Albany	Melissa McCoy-Bell
Walthall	1910	Marion / Pike	Tylertown	Sue Wright
Warren	1809	Natchez District	Vicksburg	Virginia Zeigler
Washington	1827	Warren / Yazoo	Greenville	Gayle Triller
Wayne	1809	Mississippi Territory's "Old"Washington County	Waynesboro	LeFloris Lyon.
Webster	1874	Montgomery / Chickasaw / Choctaw / Oktibbeha	Walthall	Jackie Rhodes
Wilkinson	1802	Adams	Woodville	Carolyn Switzer
Winston	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Louisville	LeFloris Lyon
Yalobusha	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Water Valley & Coffeeville	Evelyn Crocker
Yazoo	1823	Hinds	Yazoo City	Betty Aron-Schneider
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