Explore Bridgetown, 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 Bridgetown, 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 Bridgetown.
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 | Bridgetown |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | DeSoto County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.8907 |
| Longitude | -89.9069 |
| Population | 2,281 |
| Density | 396.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 38651 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| County Seat | Hernando |
| School District | DeSoto County School District |
Bridgetown occupies a landscape defined by the heavy, loamy soil of the inland plains where the light at dusk turns a bruised, singular gold against the horizon. It lies 6.6 miles southwest of Olive Branch, MS (from Olive Branch, MS: bearing 222°T), and is situated 9.1 miles southeast of Southaven. The earth here holds a stubborn, humid heat that keeps the kudzu creeping along fence lines and the air thick with the scent of damp earth and cooling asphalt. A mile to the west, Bean Patch Creek traces a slow, muddy path through the low-lying brush, its waters moving with the heavy, deliberate quiet of the interior. Further out, the expanse toward Arkabutla Lake flattens into wide, agricultural stretches, where the sky seems to occupy more space than the land itself, pressing down with a weight that defines the temperament of the people who work the rows.
Bridgetown remains anchored to the agricultural cycles that first dictated its settlement, though the modern rhythm of the local economy now leans into the quiet, steady commerce of a crossroads transit point. History lingers in the brick facades of the older storefronts, which have survived long after the original rail spurs pulled back, leaving the streets to follow the unhurried cadence of a place that measures time by the seasonal harvest. On weekends, the activity shifts toward the open greens of Snowden Grove Park, where the sounds of youth sports drift over the lawns, providing a contrast to the stillness of the surrounding fields. Bridgetown persists as a place of deliberate endurance, where the past is not a museum piece but a layer of silt beneath the present, coloring the way the afternoon sun hits the storefront glass or the way shadows lengthen across the porch boards as the day concludes.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bridgetown, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.8907, -89.9069. 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 Bridgetown includes the ZIP code (38651), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of DeSoto County (Hernando), and school district assignment (DeSoto 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. |