Big Point Mississippi Map

About Big Point, Mississippi

Big Point is a locality in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 618. The population density is 81.2 people per km². Big Point is located at 30.5869°N, 88.4820°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 39562.

Big Point emerges from the flat, pine-studded plains as a quiet expanse of humid earth and tall, slender timber. It lies 12.5 miles north-northeast of Moss Point, MS (from Moss Point, MS: bearing 14°T), and is situated 15.9 miles north-northeast of Pascagoula. The landscape here is defined by the slow movement of Lyons Creek, which snakes through the undergrowth only a mile away, feeding the thirsty root systems of the surrounding woods. To the north, the terrain dips toward the low-lying basin known as The Neck, where the air hangs heavy and thick with the scent of damp soil and pine resin. On days when the sun slants low, the light catches the dust motes in the air, turning the horizon into a muted, hazy gray that obscures the distant silhouette of Easen Hill. The moisture from the nearby Black Creek Cooling Pond provides a constant, subtle shift in the humidity, influencing the way the long shadows stretch across the fields as the afternoon wanes into a deep, velvet dusk.

History in Big Point persists in the quiet endurance of the families who have worked this land since the early days of timber harvest and localized agriculture. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil and the sprawling tracts of the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms, where the land is managed with a steady, pragmatic focus on preservation and resource. Life in Big Point moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, dictated more by the cycles of the seasons than by the frantic pulse of the outside world. There is a particular stillness here, a sense that the residents are merely tending to a legacy that predates the modern machinery of the surrounding industrial corridors. The character of the place is found in the porch lights flickering on at twilight and the persistent, low-frequency hum of insects that rises from the brush, reminding anyone who lingers that the land is very much alive and entirely indifferent to the passage of time.

About This Big Point Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Big Point, Mississippi. Coordinates: 30.586862, -88.48196. 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 Big Point includes the ZIP code (39562), telephone area code (228), county seat of Jackson County (Pascagoula), and school district assignment (Jackson 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.