Bentonia Mississippi Map

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.

About This Bentonia Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bentonia, Mississippi. Coordinates: 32.640971, -90.364814. 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 Bentonia includes the ZIP code (39040), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Yazoo County (Yazoo City), and school district assignment (Yazoo 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.