Coahoma County, Mississippi Map
Explore Coahoma County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 8 cities and towns in Coahoma County below.
Interactive Map of Coahoma County, Mississippi
| County | Coahoma |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | Clarksdale |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 34.261392 |
| Longitude | -90.586975 |
| Cities & Towns | 8 |
| Area Codes | 228, 601, 662, 769 |
About Coahoma County, Mississippi
Coahoma County occupies a vast, alluvial expanse where the earth remains so level that the horizon seems to press against the sky like a lid. The Mississippi River defines its western edge, a muscular, brown ribbon that has spent eons depositing the deep, black silt that gives this ground its legendary fertility. To the east, the terrain shifts away from the river’s immediate influence, though the entire region remains a part of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain where the air often hangs heavy and still, thick with the scent of damp soil and growing cotton. In the late afternoon, the light here grows viscous, turning the sprawling fields into a shimmering, metallic gray that seems to swallow the sun long before it actually dips below the edge of the world.
Coahoma County emerged from the wilderness during the early nineteenth century, carved from territory once held by the Choctaw people. Its development was fueled by the brutal labor of those forced into bondage to clear the dense canebrakes and hardwood forests, creating a landscape of massive plantations that defined the region’s social and political structures for generations. The county seat was established to serve as a hub for the trade and legal administration required by this agrarian empire, growing into a place of brick facades and iron balconies that still mirror the architecture of the river trade. The streets here carry a quiet weight, holding the echoes of a period when the river was the only highway, and the town center served as the sole point of contact for the sprawling, isolated farms surrounding it.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the county, though the nature of the work has shifted from the hand-tended rows of the past to the mechanical precision of modern farming. The character of the land is found in the rhythm of the seasons, where the planting and harvest dictate the movement of the day and the quietude of the nights. Small, weathered buildings still stand at crossroads, serving as silent witnesses to the emergence of a musical tradition that rose directly from the heat and the hardship of the fields. The air here holds a distinct, humid stillness that feels ancient, and in the spaces between the long, straight rows of soybeans and corn, one can sense a stubborn, enduring vitality that refuses to be erased by the slow, inevitable creep of time.
Cities and Towns in Coahoma County
About This Coahoma County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Coahoma County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 8 cities and towns. The county seat is Clarksdale. 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 |
