Alcorn County, Mississippi

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Appalachia
Surnames/tags: Mississippi Appalachia

Contents 1 Alcorn County 1.1 Timeline 1.2 Categories 1.3 Stickers 2 Geography 2.1 Maps 2.2 Adjacent Mississippi Counties 3 Resources

Alcorn County

Alcorn County was created 15 April 1870 from Tippah and Tishomingo Counties. The county seat is Corinth. Records were lost in 1917.^[1] It is one of the 24 Mississippi counties in today's Appalachia.^[2]

"Located along the Tennessee border in northeastern Mississippi, Alcorn County is named for James L. Alcorn, Mississippi's twenty-eighth governor. The county was carved out of Tishomingo County in 1870, when it was originally home to 10,431 residents, roughly 75 percent of them white. Corinth, which eventually became Alcorn’s county seat, emerged in the 1850s as an important railroad center, making it a strategic site during the Civil War."

~ see the Alcorn County page of the MSGenWeb project for additional history and geneological information^[3]

~ see the Alcorn County Wikipedia page for a list of Communities^[4]

Timeline

1870, 15 April: Alcorn County was created [mostly] from Tishomingo County^[3] (it gained some land from Tippah County also)^[5]

see the FamilySearch page for more timeline information^[1]

Categories

The Appalachia Project category for people profiles would be Mississippi Appalachians (c1830 to present). In 1828, the area that became Alcorn County is shown as Chickasaw Land,^[5] and those who lived there would likely be covered by the Native American Project (the exception being non-NAs, such as a trapper, trader, or mountain man who called this part of Appalachia home).^[5]

The location category to add to someone's profile depends on when the person lived on the land that was once Alcorn County:

• c1829/30 to 1836, Category: Monroe County, Mississippi^[5]
• 1836 to before 1870, either Category: Tishomingo County, Mississippi or (the western tip) Category: Tippah County, Mississippi^[5]
• Category: Alcorn County, Mississippi from 1870 to today.^[1]

Alcorn County exists today as one of Mississippi's 24 counties in Appalachia.^[6]

Stickers

coming soon

Geography

Maps

• Maps of Mississippi
• Historical Atlases, State and County Maps of Mississippi

Adjacent Mississippi Counties

Information from Alcorn County's Wikipedia page, as of 24 July 2022.^[4] See also the map on the FamilySearch page.^[1]

Northwest Tennessee		North Tennessee	Northeast Tennessee
West Tippah County		Alcorn County Mississippi		East Tishomingo County
Southwest Tippah County		South Prentiss County	Southeast Tishomingo County

Resources

• Category: Alcorn County, Mississippi
• County page: Alcorn County
• FamilySearch: Alcorn County, Mississippi Genealogy
• Wikipedia: Alcorn County, Mississippi

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Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} FamilySearch: Alcorn County, Mississippi Genealogy (accessed 24 July 2022).
2. ↑ As listed by the Appalachian Regional Commission (here) as of 30 June 2022. The Mississippi table on the Appalachia Project's Counties of Appalachia page has links to the category pages for those 24 counties. Workspace for Appalachia Project - Mississippi has a table with links to existing space pages. See also the project category Mississippi Appalachians.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Mississippi GenWeb: Alcorn County (accessed 24 July 2022).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Wikipedia: Alcorn County, Mississippi (accessed 24 July 2022).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} Maps of Mississippi (accessed 24 July 2022).
6. ↑ See WikiTree's Workspace for Appalachia Project - Mississippi, a project page of the Appalachia Project. See also the Mississippi table on the project's Space: Counties of Appalachia page.