Carroll County, Mississippi Map
Explore Carroll County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 3 cities and towns in Carroll County below.
Interactive Map of Carroll County, Mississippi
| County | Carroll |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | Carrollton |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 33.452808 |
| Longitude | -89.860731 |
| Cities & Towns | 3 |
| Area Codes | 228, 601 |
About Carroll County, Mississippi
Carroll County occupies a transitional geography where the abrupt, loess-bluff rise of the interior hills meets the encroaching flatness of the alluvial floodplains to the west. The terrain is defined by the sharp verticality of ridges and the deep, tangled hollows that drain toward the Big Black River, a waterway that marks the southern boundary with a slow, muddy persistence. In the heat of midsummer, the air here holds a heavy, pressurized quality, thick with the scent of damp loam and the metallic tang of oncoming storms that gather over the flat expanse of the Delta before breaking against the timbered slopes. The light at dusk has a way of catching the gray, skeletal limbs of sycamores in the low ground, casting long, bruised shadows that seem to anchor the land in a state of perpetual, quiet suspension.
Carroll County emerged as a formal political entity in the early nineteenth century, drawn from territory ceded by indigenous nations and settled by a migration of planters and laborers who sought to tame the dense, tangled hardwoods of the interior. The administrative center was established with a deliberate focus on the high ground, a defensive and prideful orientation that favored the ridge lines over the volatile river bottoms. The architecture of the older public buildings reflects this era of expansion, utilizing sturdy, handmade brick that has weathered into a muted, earthy color, porous and stained by a century of humidity. These structures remain as solid, windowed witnesses to the shifting fortunes of cotton and timber, standing with a stubborn, heavy-lidded indifference to the passage of decades.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the region, though the scale of operations has shifted from the labor-intensive rows of the past to the wide, mechanical reach of modern row-crop farming. Outside of the planting and harvest seasons, the pace of life slows to the movement of light across a field of drying stalks or the sound of wind shifting through the kudzu that smothers the abandoned edges of rural roads. The character of the place is defined by this isolation, a solitude that is less a lack of community than a profound respect for the distance between neighbors. To drive through the county is to notice the way the landscape dictates the movement of people, forcing a slow, deliberate navigation of narrow lanes that curve around the base of hills, avoiding the directness of the modern world in favor of a path shaped by the stubborn resistance of the earth itself.
Cities and Towns in Carroll County
About This Carroll County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Carroll County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 3 cities and towns. The county seat is Carrollton. 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 |
