2015 Map of Jumpertown

About this map

Jumpertown and the surrounding borderlands of Prentiss and Tippah counties appear here as a landscape defined by small-scale farming and quiet rural communities. The map tracks the shift from the higher elevations of the Tippah Hills in the southwest toward the drainage basins of the Hatchie River and Wolf Cr. For genealogists and local historians, the sheet is particularly valuable for its documentation of family and community nodes, such as Pisgah, Blackland, and Dry Creek. Numerous burial grounds are clearly marked, including Jumpertown Cem and Morton Chapel Cem, which anchor the local history of these unincorporated areas. The inclusion of Lake Mohawk and Cox Lake provides a look at the local water resources that have shaped settlement patterns and property lines for generations in this part of North Mississippi.