Where to Find Petrified Wood in Mississippi
Mississippi has 5 mapped collecting spots that report petrified wood, spread across 5 counties. The largest share sits in Copiah County with 1 spot. 5 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Map of 5 petrified wood collecting spots in Mississippi
Standout petrified wood spots in Mississippi
Hand-picked from the full list below, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Wesson
Copiah County
The upland terrace and Citronelle gravels around Wesson in Copiah County produce banded agate, chalcedony, and petrified wood, all catalogued from the county on mindat.
Gulfport
Harrison County
Harrison County's Pliocene and Pleistocene Citronelle Formation and terrace gravels carry jasper, agate, chert, and petrified wood pebbles across the coastal plain behind Gulfport.
Holly Springs National Forest
Marshall County
Holly Springs National Forest sits on Eocene Wilcox and Claiborne sands and reworked upland gravels that carry silicified and petrified wood, Mississippi's official state stone.
Twentymile Creek
Prentiss County
Twenty Mile Creek near Baldwyn cuts through the Campanian Demopolis Formation and the underlying Coffee Sand, exposing a marine fossil bed roughly 75 million years old.
Bienville National Forest
Scott County
Bienville National Forest spreads across central Mississippi on Oligocene and Miocene sediments that host the state's petrified wood, formed when buried hardwood was replaced grain by grain with chalcedony and opal.
Best counties for petrified wood in Mississippi
Ranked by the number of mapped petrified wood spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
Every petrified wood spot we track in Mississippi
Sorted by county. Coordinates open in Google Maps.
| Spot | County | Minerals | Coordinates | Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WessonCecil Reeves Road | Copiah County | 31.7157, -90.3235 | Public | |
| GulfportRobinson Road | Harrison County | 30.4732, -89.1614 | Public | |
| Holly Springs National Forest | Marshall County | 34.7080, -89.3300 | Public | |
| Twentymile CreekCounty Road 7450 | Prentiss County | 34.5854, -88.6307 | Public | |
| Bienville National Forest | Scott County | 32.3283, -89.3037 | Public |
Before you go
Read the petrified wood identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Petrified Wood in the encyclopedia.
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