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1895 U.S. Atlas - Mississippi

Scanned images of county and state maps, index of towns.

American Memory Railroad Maps 1828-1900 - Mississippi

From the Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress.

Ancestry.com - Search Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

From the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois. Includes for each state: Interactive Map; Index of County and Equivalents; Consolidated Chronology; Individual County Chronologies; Bibliography and Sources; Historical Commentary; Metadata - Summary Form; Metadata - Full FGDC Form; Download GIS Files; Download KMZ Files; Download PDF Files.

Color Landform Atlas: Mississippi

Including a map of counties and a map for 1895.

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

From the USGS. Provides cemetery location information, as well as other physical features within a county and state.

MapQuest: World Atlas: Mississippi

Mississippi City/Town List

Mississippi County Census Maps

Shows county boundaries in effect at the time of each decennial census.

Mississippi County Facts & Information

Includes information on discontinued Mississippi counties.

Mississippi County Formation Maps

Animated map of county boundries which change over time from original county formations to the present. Also shows static maps for each year a county boundary was changed.

Mississippi Department of Archives and History - Inventory of Historic Maps of Mississippi

Free historic maps of Mississippi web site is now available to researchers. The site references over 1,000 maps, 75% of which contain a high resolution image. Each map reference contains up to fourteen categories of information. They are: title, author, scale, situation date, publication date, type of map, features, comments, geographic coverage, repository, language, publisher, size, links to scanned images and color status. The data set is unique in that all natural and cultural features on a map are listed, along with the geographic area covered by the map. These and other data categories can be searched in combination with each other.

RootsWeb Town Search - TownCo

Enter the name of a U.S. town to learn the name of the county where that town is located.

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Mississippi Maps

From The University of Texas at Austin.

U.S. Census Bureau - State and County QuickFacts - Mississippi County Selection Map

USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library

Yale Peabody Museum: GNIS - Mississippi

Search the USGS Geographic Names Database. You can limit the search to a specific county in this state and search for any of the following features: airport arch area arroyo bar basin bay beach bench bend bridge building canal cape cemetery channel church cliff crater crossing dam falls flat forest gap geyser glacier gut harbor hospital island isthmus lake lava levee locale mine oilfield other park pillar plain ppl range rapids reserve reservoir ridge school sea slope spring stream summit swamp tower trail tunnel valley well woods.