Carthage Mississippi Map

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.

About This Carthage Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Carthage, Mississippi. Coordinates: 32.744227, -89.533452. 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 Carthage includes the ZIP code (39120, 39051), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Leake County (Carthage), and school district assignment (Leake 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.