Byhalia Mississippi Map

About Byhalia, Mississippi

Byhalia is a locality in Marshall County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,339. The population density is 72.1 people per km². Byhalia is located at 34.8723°N, 89.6906°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Byhalia is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38611.

Byhalia occupies a quiet corner of the northern Mississippi landscape, where the earth rises and falls in long, deliberate swells of clay and loam. It lies 10.0 miles southeast of Olive Branch, MS (from Olive Branch, MS: bearing 128°T), and is situated 19.9 miles east-southeast of Southaven. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness, often thick with the scent of damp soil and the encroaching green of wild vines that climb toward the canopy of hardwoods. Only a mile away, Byhalia Creek cuts a narrow, winding path through the brush, its waters moving with a sluggish, meditative persistence that defines the drainage of these inland plains. Farther out, the horizon remains dominated by the dense, shadowed silhouettes of the Holly Springs Ranger District, standing as a dark boundary against the pale, bleached light of a late afternoon sky.

Byhalia emerged from the necessity of the rail line, a junction point where the movement of goods and the labor of the field once dictated the slow, rhythmic pulse of daily life. Today, the economy has shifted toward the sprawling architecture of distribution and logistics, replacing the smaller, weathered storefronts with vast, metallic silhouettes that catch the orange glow of dusk. History remains visible in the quietude of the surrounding acres, where the influence of Estanaula Park provides a measured respite from the hum of modern industry. Life here maintains a deliberate pace, colored by the transition from the agrarian legacies of the past to the mechanical demands of the present, leaving the traveler with a sense of a place caught between the memory of the furrowed field and the insistent forward motion of the freight train.

About This Byhalia Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Byhalia, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.872318, -89.69064. 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 Byhalia includes the ZIP code (38611), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Marshall County (Holly Springs), and school district assignment (Marshall 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.