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Kemper County is located in the East Central portion of Mississippi on the Alabama border. Kemper County was formed on December 23, 1833, one of sixteen counties formed from land the Choctaw Indians ceeded with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit.

The county was named in honor of Virginia native Colonel Reuben Kemper who moved with his brothers Samuel and Nathan to the Fort Adams area, became a leader of the 1811 West Florida Rebellion against Spain, and fought under Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.

Unfortunately for genealogists, the Kemper County Courthouse burned in 1882, resulting in a total loss of all county records up to that time.

The county seat is DeKalb. Other Kemper County communities include: Scooba, Bogue Chitto, Electric Mills, Enondale, Gholson, Kellis Store, Minden, Moscow, Preston, Porterville, Sucarnoochee, and Wahalak. In it's first census in 1840 there were 7,667 residents listed. In the last federal census in 2010 the population was 10,456.