Explore Ashland, Mississippi, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ashland, Mississippi. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Mississippi or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Ashland.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Ashland |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | Benton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.834119 |
| Longitude | -89.177741 |
| Population | 551 |
| Density | 116.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 39113, 39096, 38603 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| County Seat | Ashland |
| School District | Benton County School District |
Ashland occupies a quiet expanse of northern Mississippi where the earth is defined by the steady, persistent movement of Rhoden Creek. It lies 37.7 miles north-northeast of Oxford, MS (from Oxford, MS: bearing 31°T), and is situated 16.1 miles east-northeast of Holly Springs. The landscape here is characterized by the soft, worn contours of the landscape, where Rogers Hill rises three miles to the horizon and Robinson Bottom stretches out six miles away, carving a subtle depression into the soil. Within two miles, the dense, untamed growth of the Holly Springs National Forest begins to assert its influence, drawing the eye toward a canopy that feels ancient and undisturbed. Three miles distant, the waters of Pleasant Hill Lake settle into the lowlands, reflecting a sky that often turns a bruised, heavy purple as the sun slips behind the trees. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp earth and decaying leaves, a scent that clings to the skin long after the heat of the day has receded into the deep, cooling shadows of the pines.
Ashland serves as the administrative center for Benton County, a role that anchors the daily lives of residents to the slow, deliberate turn of the courthouse clock. The economy remains tethered to the land, rooted in the legacy of agriculture and the quiet persistence of local commerce that has sustained families for generations. While the Holly Springs Ranger District lies sixteen miles away, its presence is felt in the timber and the quiet, deliberate pace of life that persists despite the shifting tides of the modern world. There is a distinct rhythm to the streets, a pattern of coming and going that ignores the frantic speed of larger centers, favoring instead the steady, predictable pulse of a place that understands its own boundaries. History here is not a polished museum exhibit but a layering of soil and memory, evident in the way the wind moves through the surrounding fields and the way the light catches the dust on a porch at dusk.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ashland, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.834119, -89.177741. 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 Ashland includes the ZIP code (39113, 39096, 38603), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Benton County (Ashland), and school district assignment (Benton County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |