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Carthage Mississippi Map

Explore Carthage, 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.

Interactive Map of Carthage, Mississippi

How to Use This Carthage, Mississippi Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Carthage, 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 Carthage.

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	Carthage
State	Mississippi (MS)
County	Leake County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.744227
Longitude	-89.533452
Population	4,901
Density	203.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	39120, 39051
Area Code	601, 769
County Seat	Carthage
School District	Leake County School District

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About Carthage, Mississippi

Carthage is a locality in Leake County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,901. The population density is 203.6 people per km². Carthage is located at 32.7442°N, 89.5335°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Carthage is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 39120, 39051.

Carthage emerges from the dense, humid embrace of the piney woods, where Town Creek carves a slow, silt-heavy path through the red clay earth. It lies 30.3 miles east-northeast of Canton, MS (from Canton, MS: bearing 74°T), and is situated 18.3 miles west of Pearl River. The terrain here is defined by a low-slung, irregular topography that tilts toward the horizon, where the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Government Hills break the skyline. At the edges of the settlement, the quiet surface of Langston Lake mirrors the heavy, golden light of late afternoon, cooling the air that settles over the fields. Mcmillian Park provides a central green threshold, a space where the stillness of the landscape is punctuated only by the occasional rustle of hardwoods and the persistent, rhythmic hum of insects in the tall grass.

Carthage maintains a steady, deliberate pace, anchored in the labor of the soil and the industrial pulse of its processing facilities. The economy remains tethered to the land, drawing its strength from the cycles of agriculture and the timber that blankets the surrounding geography, shaping the daily movements of the people who work its tracts. History here is not a collection of monuments, but a layer of grit and resilience evident in the weathered storefronts and the quiet, unadorned architecture that defines the streetscape. Life in Carthage revolves around these fundamental rhythms, where the weight of the past is felt in the slow, careful way the community organizes its future, grounded firmly in the interior landscape of the deep South.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mcmillian Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 145° SE
Golden Memorial State Park (State Park) — 13.5 mi, 147° SE
Bienville National Forest (National Forest) — 13.7 mi, 208° SW · 180k acres
Bienville Wma (State Conservation Area) — 19.3 mi, 190° S
Kosciusko Heritage Foundation Museum (Museum) — 20.5 mi, 352° N
Private (State Conservation Area) — 20.5 mi, 240° SW
Canal Place Cinema 7 (Cinema) — 22.9 mi, 087° E
Holmes County State Park (State Park) — 28.2 mi, 313° NW
Pearl River State Waterfowl Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 28.6 mi, 239° SW
Canton Train Museum (Museum) — 30.9 mi, 253° W
Nanih Waiya (Historic Ruins) — 36.1 mi, 070° E
Boyd Mounds (Historic Ruins) — 37.0 mi, 237° SW
French Camp Historic Village (Museum) — 38.9 mi, 011° N
9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 39.0 mi, 239° SW
Plaque (Monument) — 39.0 mi, 239° SW
Brahear's Stand (Monument) — 39.1 mi, 236° SW
Montgomery Historic House Museum (Museum) — 39.2 mi, 240° SW
Tombigbee National Forest (National Forest) — 39.3 mi, 035° NE · 67k acres
Children Playing (Public Artwork) — 39.6 mi, 241° SW
Hillside National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.7 mi, 303° NW · 31k acres
Smith-Wills Stadium (Stadium) — 45.8 mi, 232° SW
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.4 mi, 047° NE · 97k acres
Mississippi Museum of Natural Science (Museum) — 46.5 mi, 232° SW
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.Proposed Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 55.0 mi, 046° NE · 1,126 acres
Hallie Ward Interiors ft Queen City Art Gallery (Gallery) — 55.1 mi, 118° SE
MSU Riley Center (Theatre) — 55.2 mi, 118° SE
Simmons-Wright1884 Cafe (Attraction) — 67.5 mi, 109° E
Rice-Totten Stadium (Stadium) — 70.6 mi, 319° NW

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