Covering a total area of 818.93 sq mi and having a total population of over 55.8K with an excellent admixture of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others with more than 18K housing units and 13.5K families, Pearl River County has its county seat in Poplarville and the largest town in Picayune. The county was established in 1890 and was named after the Pearl River.

Being modernized and sustained at regular intervals and following a routine maintenance, the Pearl River County records library has become one of the most pertinent hunt tool for the record lovers obtaining data related to World War I and II information, American Civil War history, real estate and property facts, last will or probate specifics, civil court case lookups demise facts, burial and cemetery details, census data, origin and birth details, immigration and naturalization specifics, marriage and divorce details, war and enlistment data, land and estate data, obituary notice and the many other similar issues.