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History · Georgetown

Georgetown’s post office opened in 1826, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Georgetown was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1975. Its Register listings are the Pearl River Bridge on Mississippi Highway 28 and the Georgetown Methodist Church. Below: maps from 1971 on and the census since 1920.

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How Georgetown began

When was Georgetown founded?

1826

The Georgetown post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 317 in 19202020 census: 252200 years
Founding year: the first Georgetown post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Georgetown’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Georgetown are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 415 in 1940; 252 people lived here in 2020.Deep rootsA post office since 1826: 200 years of Georgetown.
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Start Georgetown’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Georgetown’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Georgetown, census by census

0100200300400192019401960198020002020Peak: 415

Peaked at 415 in 1940; 252 people lived here in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Georgetown’s Wikipedia page.

Timeline

Georgetown, 1826 to 1971

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1826Post officeThe Georgetown post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1937Born hereDick Bass is born here
  5. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 415
  6. 1971On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Georgetown, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Georgetown yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Georgetown is a town in Copiah County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, Georgetown had a population of 252. With its eastern border formed by the Pearl River, it is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. Two sites near Georgetown are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the Highway 28 bridge over the Pearl River, about a mile east of Georgetown, and the Alford-Little House, off Highway 27 south of town.

Its first post office opened in 1826. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 286 to 252 (-12%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Georgetown, decade by decade

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On the map

Georgetown on the map in 1971

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Georgetown.

Georgetown on the 1971 USGS map1971Georgetown sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Georgetown.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Georgetown

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Pearl River Bridge on Mississippi Highway 28
BuildingsStructures
All 2 listings
Pearl River Bridge on Mississippi Highway 28Structure · listed 2005Georgetown Methodist ChurchBuilding · listed 2016

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Georgetown’s history

What year was Georgetown founded?

The Georgetown post office opened in 1826, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Georgetown?

Two places: the Pearl River Bridge on Mississippi Highway 28 (listed 2005) and the Georgetown Methodist Church (2016).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.