Mississippi Code 1972 (2024)
Title 3 - STATE SOVEREIGNTY, JURISDICTION AND HOLIDAYS (§§ 3-1-1 — 3-7-1)
Chapter 3 - STATE BOUNDARIES, HOLIDAYS, AND STATE EMBLEMS (§§ 3-3-1 — 3-3-75)
Section 3-3-3 - How state divided into counties
The State of Mississippi is divided into the following counties, to wit: Adams, Alcorn, Amite, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Coahoma, Copiah, Covington, De Soto, 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, and Yazoo, which are bounded as described in Chapter 1 of Title 19 of this Code.
Codes, 1857, ch. 2, art. 3; 1871, § 19; 1880, § 22; 1892, § 346; 1906, § 404; Hemingway's 1917, § 3818; 1930, § 3886; 1942, § 3021.
