Arkabutla Mississippi Map

About Arkabutla, Mississippi

Arkabutla is a locality in Tate County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 285. The population density is 27.3 people per km². Arkabutla is located at 34.6990°N, 90.1223°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 38618, 38602.

Arkabutla emerges from the heavy, humid air of the Mississippi landscape as a quiet expanse where the earth transitionally yields from the flat, fertile reaches of the Delta into the modest lift of the upland hills. It lies 11.3 miles southwest of Hernando, MS (from Hernando, MS: bearing 220°T), and is situated 18.4 miles south-southwest of Horn Lake. The terrain here is defined by a deep, damp stillness, where thickets of hardwood and pine guard the margins of the land against the encroachment of the summer sun. Only a mile away, the water of Rock Creek moves with a sluggish, deliberate intent through the clay, its banks lined with the tangled, dark greenery of vine and brush. Two miles to the west, the expansive surface of Arkabutla Lake catches the late afternoon light, turning the horizon into a sheet of hammered silver that mirrors the broad, cloud-heavy sky.

Arkabutla remains a place of profound agricultural legacy, where the soil has long dictated the rhythm of daily life and the slow, persistent labor of those who work the fields. The economy here is tethered to the land and the management of the nearby Arkabutla Lake, which serves as a necessary anchor for both flood control and the quiet recreation of the region. History lingers in the architecture of the older dwellings and the skeletal remains of rural outbuildings, which stand as weathered witnesses to the generations that navigated the shifts in the local timber and farming industries. In Arkabutla, the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the gradual changing of the crops and the seasonal rise and fall of the water, creating a persistent, grounded identity that remains indifferent to the frantic pace of the world beyond these woods.

About This Arkabutla Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arkabutla, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.69899, -90.122315. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Arkabutla includes the ZIP code (38618, 38602), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Tate County (Senatobia), and school district assignment (Tate County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.