Creator: Planning Commission (RG 15).

Collection Summary: Maps, profiles, charts, specifications, bid documents, excavation sheets, and other items related to drainage districts in Mississippi.  These items were generated and compiled during the course of the Statewide Drainage Survey conducted by the State Planning Commission (and its successor, the Board of Development) and the Works Progress Administration. Since the engineers and other workers on the survey used pre-existing drainage district maps and data where available, some of the material in this series significantly predates the survey itself. However, the majority of these materials are the direct result of work by the survey engineers and project planners. The materials in this series are arranged by county as a way of giving some organization to these items. Many drainage districts actually cross county boundaries. Please see the tables on the following pages, which contain more detailed box contents. One of the tables is arranged alphabetically by county, and the other is arranged alphabetically by drainage district. Note that the word “documents” in the box contents list below refers to bid documents, specifications, and other letter-sized items, as opposed to the oversized items which make up the bulk of this collection.

Access Restrictions: None

Date(s): 1911-1941.

Volume: 50.00 Cubic Feet 

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in March 2025 

Related Materials: Series 416: Statewide Drainage Survey District Reports. 1939-1940. Series 417: Drainage District Subject Files. 1935-1941. 

Record Group History: The Mississippi Planning Commission was created by the Mississippi Senate via Senate Bill 551 in 1936. The Commission was tasked with creating a master plan for the physical development of the state and prepare a program for the continued development of major improvements in the state. Additional duties of the commission were the preparation of maps and surveys for the use of state agencies and the performance of administrative and engineering work throughout Mississippi. In 1940, the commission was abolished, and its duties were transferred to the newly created Board of Development.

Collection Inventory:
Box Content 

Box Number

Adams19051
Adams612
Alcorn612
Alcorn19051
Attala612
Attala19051
Benton612
Benton (documents)19052
Bolivar19051
Bolivar17585
Bolivar613
Bolivar (documents)19052
Calhoun20453
Calhoun17593
Carroll17593
Chickasaw17593
Chickasaw20453
Choctaw17593
Clay614
Coahoma614
Coahoma19051
DeSoto614
Grenada615
Harrison615
Holmes615
Holmes20453
Humphreys20453
Humphreys615
Issaquena20453
Itawamba615
Jefferson615
Lafayette615
Lafayette20453
Leake615
Leake (documents)19052
Lee616
Leflore616
Leflore (documents)19052
List of organized drainage districts in Mississippi:  1941622
Marshall20454
Marshall616
Monroe617
Montgomery617
Neshoba617
Neshoba20459
Neshoba20458
Neshoba (documents)19052
Newton617
Newton (documents)19052
Oktibbeha617
Panola617
Pontotoc617
Prentiss20454
Prentiss17601
Prentiss (documents)19052
Quitman17601
Scott17601
Sharkey17601
Sharkey20455
Sharkey19052
Sunflower618
Sunflower19052
Tallahatchie19052
Tallahatchie20453
Tallahatchie618
Tate618
Tate20455
Tate19052
Tippah19052
Tippah20457
Tippah20456
Tippah619
Tippah (documents)19052
Tishomingo619
Tishomingo20457
Tishomingo19052
Tunica19052
Tunica20457
Tunica619
Unidentified620
Union620
Union20457
Union19052
Union20461
Washington20461
Washington20460
Washington20456
Washington620
Webster620
Webster19052
Wilkinson20457
Wilkinson620
Winston19052
Winston622
Yalobusha19052
Yalobusha622
Yazoo622
Yazoo19052
Yazoo20457