Bolivar County Facts & Information


Please submit your genealogy records and updates for researchers to share. Send your information to BJMarlow. If you have pictures of any loved ones monuments, please consider submitting.

To search for a specific name in all records at once, use the Search This Site link.


Bolivar County Population History
YearPopulationGrowth
1840
1356
1850
2577
0.9
1860
10471
3.063
1870
9732
−7.1%
1880
18652
0.917
1890
29980
0.607
1900
35427
0.182
1910
48905
0.38
1920
57669
0.179
1930
71051
0.232
1940
67564
−4.9%
1950
63004
−6.7%
1960
54464
−13.6%
1970
49409
−9.3%
1980
45965
−7.0%
1990
41875
−8.9%
2000
40633
−3.0%
Est. 2008
37195
−8.5

Important Addresses:

Bolivar County Circuit Clerk
P. O. Box 670
Cleveland, Mississippi 38732
phone: 662-765-6506

Bolivar County Chancery Clerk
P. O. Box 789
Cleveland, Mississippi 38732
phone: 662-843-2071

Bolivar County Health Department
711 Third Street
Cleveland, MS 38732
phone: 662-843-2706

Bolivar County Library
104 S. Leflore Ave.
Cleveland, MS 38732
phone: 662-843-2774

Mississippi Dept of Archives & History
PO Box 571 (200 North Street)
Jackson, MS 39205
Phone: 601-576-6876
http://mdah.state.ms.us/




Bolivar County Schools
Name Location Elev. (ft) LatitudeLongitude
Alligator Elementary School Duncan 154 feet 34.085ºN 90.723ºW
Anarke School (historical) Laconia 154 feet 34.001ºN 90.935ºW
Bell Elementary School Cleveland 141 feet 33.700ºN 90.726ºW
Benoit High School Benoit 141 feet 33.656ºN 91.010ºW
Bob Woods Elementary School Gunnison 151 feet 33.944ºN 90.940ºW
Bolivar County Agricultural High School (historical) Cleveland 138 feet 33.747ºN 90.736ºW
Bolivar County High School Rosedale 144 feet 33.857ºN 91.026ºW
Bolivar County Junior High School Rosedale 148 feet 33.846ºN 91.026ºW
Booker School (historical) Round Lake 157 feet 34.068ºN 90.805ºW
Broad Street High School Shelby 151 feet 33.948ºN 90.762ºW
Brooks Elementary School Duncan 154 feet 34.042ºN 90.742ºW
Cleveland Colored Consolidated School (historical) Unknown      
Cleveland High School Cleveland 138 feet 33.749ºN 90.725ºW
Cypress Park Elementary School Cleveland 134 feet 33.739ºN 90.710ºW
Delta State College Cleveland 141 feet 33.747ºN 90.735ºW
East Side High School Cleveland 134 feet 33.739ºN 90.713ºW
Eastwood Junior High School Cleveland 134 feet 33.739ºN 90.710ºW
Germania School (historical) Mound Bayou 144 feet 33.952ºN 90.676ºW
Joe Barnes Vocational Technical Center Rosedale 148 feet 33.846ºN 91.028ºW
John F Kennedy Memorial High School Mound Bayou 144 feet 33.882ºN 90.727ºW
King Solomon School (historical) Round Lake 154 feet 34.105ºN 90.760ºW
Magnolia School (historical) Cleveland 134 feet 33.670ºN 90.672ºW
Margaret Green Junior High School Cleveland 138 feet 33.749ºN 90.727ºW
McEvans School Shaw 131 feet 33.599ºN 90.771ºW
Merigold School Merigold 141 feet 33.837ºN 90.721ºW
Montgomery Elementary School Mound Bayou 144 feet 33.879ºN 90.726ºW
Nailor Elementary School Cleveland 138 feet 33.737ºN 90.718ºW
New Hope School (historical) Mound Bayou 144 feet 33.938ºN 90.675ºW
Nugent Center School Benoit 141 feet 33.637ºN 91.028ºW
Pace Center School Pace 141 feet 33.836ºN 90.849ºW
Pace Elementary School Pace 138 feet 33.790ºN 90.859ºW
Parks Elementary School Cleveland 138 feet 33.737ºN 90.741ºW
Renova School (historical) Merigold 141 feet 33.776ºN 90.721ºW
Rosedale Normal Industrial College (historical) Unknown      
Shaw High School Shaw 131 feet 33.611ºN 90.767ºW
Shelby Elementary School Shelby 154 feet 33.953ºN 90.764ºW
Skene School Skene 131 feet 33.704ºN 90.798ºW
Smith School (historical) Merigold 141 feet 33.787ºN 90.672ºW
Switzer School (historical) Unknown     0.000ºW
White Zion School (historical) Merigold 141 feet 33.851ºN 90.667ºW
Woodbine School (historical) Duncan 151 feet 34.003ºN 90.705ºW





Bolivar County Lakes & Streams
NameLatitudeLongitude
Alligator Bayou 340443N 0904227W
Alligator Lake 340516N 0904258W
Ann Bayou 334041N 0905653W
Barrows Lake (historical) 335506N 0904308W
Bear Lake 333121N 0905234W
Beaver Bayou 335008N 0904034W
Bee Bayou 333056N 0905513W
Belman Bayou 334315N 0905430W
Beulah Crevasse 334538N 0910220W
Big Blue Hole 333944N 0911001W
Big Bradford Bayou 334850N 0904817W
Big Monocnoc Lake 333817N 0910538W
Big Sunflower River 324013N 0904004W
Black Bayou 333825N 0905418W
Black Bayou 332825N 0910453W
Blue Hole 335956N 0905848W
Bogue Hasty 333325N 0905130W
Bogue Phalia 331515N 0904348W
Boles Lake 335042N 0905846W
Bolivar Chute 334004N 0910309W
Brook Bayou 340017N 0905205W
Browns Bayou 333421N 0905926W
Brushy Bayou 334041N 0905051W
Brushy Lake 333716N 0910217W
Brushy Lake 334457N 0910254W
Buck Lake 340550N 0904707W
Bull Bayou 333300N 0910111W
Burrus Bayou 333830N 0905730W
California Brake (historical) 335358N 0904512W
Christmas Lake Branch 334153N 0905638W
Clear Creek 333020N 0905155W
Concordia Bayou 335901N 0910201W
Concordia Drain 335903N 0910146W
Conservation League Lake 335200N 0905753W
Deer Creek 323244N 0904743W
Dry Bayou 334807N 0905741W
Dry Bayou 335130N 0904611W
Dry Bayou 332952N 0905522W
Duck Chute 334025N 0911210W
East Bogue Hasty 333803N 0905005W
East Branch Deer Creek 333118N 0905949W
Edward Bayou 340041N 0904744W
Emory Pond (historical) 340327N 0904000W
Fox Bayou 333707N 0904245W
Goffs Bayou 335134N 0905838W
Good Luck Bayou 333941N 0905657W
Grassy Lake 333457N 0910705W
Grassy Lake 334243N 0905117W
Half Moon Bayou 334629N 0905630W
Harris Bayou 340504N 0903450W
Henderson Bayou 334709N 0905533W
Holmes Lake 335548N 0904728W
Howden Lake 340307N 0904137W
Hushpuckena River 335808N 0903758W
Icy Bayou 334001N 0905020W
Island Lake 340632N 0904505W
Jones Bayou 340437N 0904547W
Jones Bayou 333417N 0903314W
Jordan Bayou 333702N 0905517W
Kimball Lake 334545N 0904813W
Knox Bayou 332900N 0905132W
Laban Bayou 334544N 0905218W
Lake Beulah 334559N 0910029W
Lake Bolivar 333716N 0910333W
Lake Concordia 335601N 0905926W
Lake Vermilon 334333N 0910126W
Lake Whittington 333930N 0910447W
Lane Bayou 335107N 0905508W
Lead Bayou 334309N 0903631W
Legion Lake 334909N 0910018W
Little Bradford Bayou 335101N 0904725W
Little Monocnoc Lake 333804N 0910539W
Little Mound Bayou 335121N 0904213W
Little Steele Bayou 333206N 0905511W
Log Hole 333316N 0910924W
Long Hole 334431N 0910149W
Lost Lake 334049N 0910942W
Lost Lake 333733N 0905317W
McClellan Lake 335800N 0910348W
McNeil Slough 340654N 0904555W
Merigold Brake 335030N 0904501W
Mississippi River 290904N 0891512W
Moon Lake 340114N 0905101W
Mound Bayou 334959N 0904016W
Mound Crevasse 333520N 0910750W
Mud Lake 333405N 0910913W
North Blue Hole 333303N 0911207W
Old River Lake 335737N 0905842W
Old Tar Paper Shack Lake 335906N 0910136W
Otter Lake Bayou 334323N 0904001W
Ozark Chute 334458N 0910840W
Parker Branch 340554N 0905307W
Pecan Bayou 333733N 0904941W
Pecan Bayou 335901N 0904001W
Pecan Lake 340109N 0904107W
Picket Lake 334047N 0911040W
Picnic Hole 333251N 0910921W
Pistol Slough 333430N 0905507W
Porter Bayou 332908N 0903714W
Porter Lake 335645N 0905206W
Raineys Lake 335247N 0904627W
Rossin Bayou 333451N 0905358W
Round Hole 334436N 0910200W
Round Lake 335752N 0905231W
Round Lake 340309N 0905124W
Sandy Slough 334058N 0905103W
Saw Grass Lake 333601N 0905850W
Sawgrass Lake (historical) 335027N 0910026W
Sikes Blue Hole 333224N 0910921W
Silver Bayou 333611N 0904516W
Sixmile Lake 335155N 0904910W
Sledge Crevasse 335956N 0905640W
Snake Bayou 333306N 0905417W
Snake Creek 334420N 0905225W
South Blue Hole 333232N 0911200W
Stamps Lake 335828N 0905312W
Stillwater Bayou 333356N 0905543W
Stokes Bayou 340146N 0905126W
Stokes Bayou 334231N 0905345W
Straight Bayou 333508N 0910248W
Swan Lake (historical) 333426N 0910623W
Thousand Yard Bayou 334555N 0905303W
Tommie Bayou 334710N 0905139W
Turkey Bayou 340639N 0903946W
Turn Bayou 340023N 0903941W
Upper Bogue 335931N 0905211W
Upper Old River Lake 335947N 0905838W
West Bogue Hasty 333803N 0905005W
West Prong Indian Bayou 332709N 0903909W
Wildcat Slough 340134N 0905116W
Wilkes Bayou 340440N 0904623W
Williams Bayou 333138N 0910052W
Yankum Lake 334303N 0910210W
Yellow Bayou 340524N 0904455W