Calhoun County, Mississippi Map
Explore Calhoun County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 7 cities and towns in Calhoun County below.
Interactive Map of Calhoun County, Mississippi
| County | Calhoun |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | Pittsboro |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 33.873356 |
| Longitude | -89.320885 |
| Cities & Towns | 7 |
| Area Codes | 228, 662 |
About Calhoun County, Mississippi
Calhoun County occupies a transitional space where the flat, silty reach of the western lowlands begins to fray into the more complex, timbered topography of the interior. The terrain here is defined by the persistent carving of the Yalobusha River and its tributaries, which slice through the earth to create a series of steep, wooded ridges and narrow, fertile bottoms. This is a landscape of profound verticality, where the soil shifts from the rich, dark clays of the river basins to the lighter, sandy loams of the higher elevations. During the late afternoon, the light catches the moisture rising from the valley floors, turning the air a bruised, hazy violet that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped behind the tree line.
Calhoun County emerged in the mid-nineteenth century, carved from lands ceded by indigenous peoples during a period of rapid and often turbulent expansion. Early settlers arrived primarily from the older, established states to the east, bringing with them a culture of subsistence farming and a reliance on the waterways for transport and trade. The county seat was established to anchor the administrative life of the area, chosen for its proximity to central thoroughfares that allowed farmers to bring their crops to market. These early municipal centers grew slowly, built of local brick and timber, organized around a courthouse square that still serves as the gravitational pull for the community, even as the original wooden structures have long since surrendered to newer, more permanent masonry.
Agriculture remains the fundamental pulse of the region, though the nature of the labor has shifted from the broad-acre cotton fields of the past to a more diverse landscape of timber harvesting, livestock grazing, and modern row-crop production. The character of the people is marked by a quiet, deliberate caution, a trait fostered by a life lived in close proximity to the seasonal cycles of the earth. The air here holds the scent of pine resin and damp earth, a heavy, grounding aroma that follows a traveler from the edges of the woods into the town centers. Life proceeds with a measured intensity, focused on the maintenance of family land and the subtle social obligations of a small, interconnected society, where the passing of a storm or the success of a harvest provides the primary measure of the year.
Cities and Towns in Calhoun County
About This Calhoun County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Calhoun County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 7 cities and towns. The county seat is Pittsboro. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
