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Bentonia Mississippi Map

Explore Bentonia, 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.

Interactive Map of Bentonia, Mississippi

How to Use This Bentonia, Mississippi Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bentonia, 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 Bentonia.

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	Bentonia
State	Mississippi (MS)
County	Yazoo County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.640971
Longitude	-90.364814
Population	319
Density	86.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	39040
Area Code	601, 769
County Seat	Yazoo City
School District	Yazoo County School District

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About Bentonia, Mississippi

Bentonia is a locality in Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 319. The population density is 86.5 people per km². Bentonia is located at 32.6410°N, 90.3648°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bentonia is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39040.

Bentonia stretches across a landscape where the flat, fertile reach of the Delta meets the subtle rise of the loess hills, defined by the persistent, quiet passage of Little Mound Creek. It lies 15.0 miles south of Yazoo City, MS (from Yazoo City, MS: bearing 171°T), and is situated 7.5 miles north-northwest of Flora. The air here carries a heavy, humid stillness, often thick with the scent of damp earth and the pervasive, tangled green of kudzu climbing the trunks of oaks. Only two miles away, the waters of Old River Lake hold the reflection of the sky in a muted, silvered gray, offering a stillness that seems to slow the pulse of the surrounding fields. The light at dusk settles over the land with a singular, bruised clarity, turning the horizon into a sharp line against the darkening timber.

Bentonia remains deeply rooted in the soil, a place where the economy has long been dictated by the yield of the land and the rhythms of the seasons. This locality gained a distinctive cultural weight through the evolution of a singular, hypnotic style of blues music, a sound born from the labor and isolation of the region that continues to resonate in the memory of the streets. While the daily pace is quiet, the identity of Bentonia is marked by the enduring influence of those who turned the hardship of agricultural life into a stark, rhythmic art. For those seeking the wider landscape, the trails of Reunion Park offer a distant retreat, yet the true character of the place remains fixed in the iron-rich soil and the low, persistent murmur of the local streams.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Panther Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.3 mi, 335° NW · 66k acres
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 15.4 mi, 353° N
Delta National Forest (National Forest) — 18.0 mi, 276° W · 61k acres
Sunflower Wma (State Conservation Area) — 18.0 mi, 276° W
Children Playing (Public Artwork) — 18.1 mi, 131° SE
Private (State Conservation Area) — 18.4 mi, 286° W
Montgomery Historic House Museum (Museum) — 18.9 mi, 131° SE
Canton Train Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 096° E
Plaque (Monument) — 20.1 mi, 131° SE
9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 20.1 mi, 131° SE
Boyd Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 21.6 mi, 127° SE
Boyd Mound (Historic Ruins) — 21.6 mi, 127° SE
Old Trace Trail (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 133° SE
Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument (National Monument) — 22.5 mi, 157° SE · 1 acres
Lefleur's Bluff State Park (State Park) — 24.3 mi, 151° SE
Smith-Wills Stadium (Stadium) — 24.4 mi, 150° SE
Hillside National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.7 mi, 007° N · 31k acres
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (Museum) — 25.0 mi, 151° SE
Pearl River State Waterfowl Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 25.2 mi, 108° E
Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center (Museum) — 25.4 mi, 156° SE
The Oaks House Museum (Museum) — 25.5 mi, 154° SE
Sunflower Waterfowl Project (Nature Reserve) — 28.3 mi, 299° NW
USS Cairo (Attraction) — 34.5 mi, 238° SW
Holmes County State Park (State Park) — 36.7 mi, 044° NE
Mississippi River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 38.2 mi, 235° SW
South Fort (Historic Castle / Fort) — 38.4 mi, 234° SW
Bienville National Forest (National Forest) — 39.4 mi, 098° E · 180k acres
Mangum Site (Attraction) — 54.6 mi, 215° SW

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