US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Mississippi

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US Black Heritage Project; USBH 1880 Project

Goal: To create a profile for every Black American enumerated on the 1880 US federal census in Mississippi.

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Total Population of Mississippi in 1880: 1,131,597

Total Black Population of Mississippi in 1880: 650,291

Counties in 1880 census	Total Pop.	Black Pop.	Spreadsheet	Status/Checked
Adams	22,649	17,847	Mississippi #10
Alcorn	14,323	4,469
Amite	14,004	8,510
Attala	19,988	8,260	Mississippi #9
Benton	11,023	5,246
Bolivar	18,668	15,958
Calhoun	18,492	3,300	Mississippi #2
Carroll	17,795	9,961
Chicasaw	17,905	10,209
Choctaw	8,946	2,408
Claiborne	16,768	12,858
Clarke	15,021	7,828
Clay	17,367	12,110
Coahoma	13,568	11,155
Copiah	27,552	14,442
Covington	5,993	1,958	Mississippi #8
DeSoto	22,924	15,343
Franklin	5,345	4,871	Mississippi #8
Greene	3,194	785	Mississippi #8
Grenada	12,071	8,831
Hancock	6,379	1,764	Mississippi #8
Harrison	7,895	2,146	Mississippi #8
Hinds	43,976	32,279	Surnames A-J: Mississippi #4 Surnames K-Z: Mississippi #5
Holmes	27,164	20,233
Issaquena	10,004	9,174
Itawamba	10,663	1,108	Mississippi #8
Jackson	7,607	2,482
Jasper	12,126	5,631
Jefferson	22,328	13,051
Jones	3,828	359	Jones County Spreadsheet	Done/Checked
Kemper	15,719	8,537
Lafayette	21,665	10,280	Mississippi #3
Lauderdale	21,501	11538
Lawrence	9,425	4,478	Mississippi #11
Leake	13,146	4,660
Lee	20,470	7,814
Leflore	10,246	7,997
Lincoln	13,547	5,842
Lowndes	28,244	22,656
Madison	25,853	19,907
Marion	6,901	2,451	Mississippi#11
Marshall	29,330	18,338
Monroe	28,553	18,001
Montgomery	13,348	6,677
Neshoba	8,741	1,768
Newton	13,436	4,686
Noxubee	29,874	24,572	Mississippi #12
Oktibbeha	15,978	10,869
Panola	28,352	18,830
Perry	3,427	1,070	Mississippi #8
Pike	16,688	8,112
Pontotoc	13,849	4,240	Pontotoc County Spreadsheet
Prentiss	12,158	2,421	Mississippi #11
Quitman	1,407	815	Mississippi #2
Rankin	16,752	9,559
Scott	10,845	4,132	Mississippi #2
Sharkey	6,306	4,893	Mississippi #11
Simpson	8,008	3,014	Mississippi #8
Smith	8,088	1,636	Mississippi #11
Sumner	9,534	2,295	Mississippi #11
Sunflower	4,661	2,897	Mississippi #8
Tallahatchie	10,926	6,757
Tate	18,721	9,627
Tippah	12,867	3,065	Mississippi #11
Tishomingo	8,774	1,163	Mississippi #2
Tunica	8,461	7,205
Union	13,030	3,098	Mississippi #11
Warren	31,233	22,510
Washington	25,302	21,801
Wayne	8,741	3,770	Mississippi#2
Wilkinson	17,815	14,243
Winston	10,087	3,927
Yalobusha	15,649	8,116	Mississippi #9
Yazoo	33,845	25,342	Surnames A-L: Mississippi #6 Surnames M-Z Mississippi #7

Thank you to our spreadsheet creation helpers for Mississippi

• Donna Baumann
• Dot Davis
• Barbara Rockett
• Danita Zanrè

Sources

• "1880 Census: Volume 1. Statistics of the Population of the United States;" Table V: Population, by Race and by Counties: 1880, 1870, 1860; pages 397-398, Mississippi; image copy, United States Census Bureau, https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-01-population/1880_v1-13.pdf : accessed 31 Dec 2023.