Creator: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (RG 138).

Collection Summary: A collection of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality’s Emergency Services files. The Emergency Services division investigates and helps to organize clean ups and environmental responses to spills, leaks, or other events that can harm the local environment or community, and the files represent the documentation for the division’s environmental responses. Documents that might be found within the files include pollutant reports, summaries of the actions taken by the Department of Environmental Quality for each project, photos of the sites, and records of the cost of cleanup or rehabilitation of the sites. Some files are specific to a single project within a county, but there are also more generalized files for the county that contain smaller projects and investigations taken over a set period. There are files available for all counties in Mississippi with the exception of Noxubee County. The files generally cover the date ranges from the 1970s to the mid to late 1990s with a few counties having files for projects in the early 2000s. The files are organized alphabetically by county and each counties’ files are organized by the starting date of each folder or file. Additionally, the collection includes a box of miscellaneous files which cover projects or issues which were not specific to a single county e.g. multi county environmental surveys, response plans, projects that cover multiple counties.

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1968-2004.

Volume: 20.00 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in October 2024.

Related Materials: TBD.

Record Group History: Created out of the Mississippi Department of Natural Resources in 1989, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality is tasked with protecting the state’s environment and local communities from pollution and other environmental contaminants. The department organizes responses to environmental emergencies as well as investigating potential contaminations within the state while also monitoring the overall quality of Mississippi’s natural environment. 

Collection Inventory
Box Content by County

Box Number

·         Adams (1971-94) 

·         Alcorn (1980-93) 

·         Amite (1972-94) 

·         Attala (1984-94)

·         Benton (1982-94)

·         Bolivar (1978-93) 

36168

·         Bolivar (1994-2001) 

·         Carrol (1982-95) 

·         Calhoun (1986-94) 

·         Choctaw (1976-92) 

·         Claiborne (1976-93) 

·         Clarke (1970-98)

·         Clay (1979-93) 

36169

·         Coahoma (1979-94) 

·         Copiah (1979-95) 

·         Covington (1969-99) 

·         Desoto (1976-2001) 

·         Forrest (1974-98)

·         Franklin (1970-83)

36170

·         Franklin (1984-95) 

·         George (1974-96) 

·         Greene (1979-95) 

·         Grenada (1972-95) 

·         Hancock (1979-97)

36171

·         Hancock (1996-99) 

·         Harrison (1988-96) 

·         Hinds (1971-93)

36172
·         Hinds (1993-98)36173

·         Holmes (1981-93) 

·         Humphreys (1980-93) 

·         Issaquena (1975-95) 

·         Itawamba (1975-95) 

·         Jackson (1979-93) 

36174

·         Jackson (1994-95) 

·         Jasper (1970-93) 

·         Jefferson (1971-93) 

·         Jefferson Davis (1974-2000) 

·         Jones (1968-93)

36175

·         Jones (1993-2001) 

·         Kemper (1979-88) 

·         Lafayette (1974-93) 

·         Lamar (1969-79)

36176

·         Lamar (1980-99) 

·         Lauderdale (1980-94) 

·         Lawrence (1978-99) 

·         Leake (1979-93) 

·         Lee (1977-200)

36177

·         Leflore (1978-95) 

·         Lincoln (1971-93) 

·         Lowndes (1972-93) 

·         Madison (1971-93)

36178

·         Marion (1972-2002) 

·         Marshall (1980-93)

·         Monroe (1977-92) 

·         Montgomery (1983-94) 

·         Neshoba (1984-94) 

·         Newton (1978-93) 

·         Oktibbeha (1984-93) 

·         Panola (1974-93) 

·         Pearl River (1980-93)

36179

·         Pearl River (1994-2004) 

·         Perry (1971-93) 

·         Pike (1971-95) 

·         Pontotoc (1978-96)

·         Prentiss (1980-93) 

·         Quitman (1986-93) 

·         Rankin (1980-97)

36180
·         Rankin (1990-99)36181

·         Rankin (2000) 

·         Scott (1971-97) 

·         Sharkey (1977) 

·         Simpson (1971-85) 

36182

·         Simpson (1986-95) 

·         Smith (1971-94) 

·         Stone (1971-93) 

·         Sunflower (1979-96) 

·         Tallahatchie (1984-88) 

·         Tate (1979-92) 

·         Tippah (1985-94) 

·         Tishomingo (1986-93)

36183

·         Tunica (1981-97) 

·         Union (1979-98)

·         Walthall (1971-93) 

·         Warren (1971-95) 

·         Washington (1974-87)

36184

·         Washington (1986-95) 

·         Wayne (1971-94) 

·         Webster (1990-92) 

·         Wilkinson 1970-95) 

·         Winston (1981-93) 

·         Yalobusha (1981-1993) 

36185
·         Yazoo (1970-99)36186
·         Miscellaneous Files (1983-99)36187