De Kalb Mississippi Map

About De Kalb, Mississippi

De Kalb is a locality in Kemper County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 877. The population density is 102.0 people per km². De Kalb is located at 32.7676°N, 88.6509°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. De Kalb is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39328.

De Kalb emerges from the damp, pine-shadowed earth where the low hum of Snoody Creek cuts a path through the red clay soil. It lies 28.0 miles north of Meridian, MS (from Meridian, MS: bearing 6°T), and is situated 27.1 miles east of Philadelphia. Beneath a sky that often turns the color of a bruised plum at twilight, the landscape stretches out in quiet, undulating waves, interrupted only by the sudden, mirrored surface of Bateman Lake just a few miles from the center. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of Potters Ridge anchors the horizon, providing a permanent, jagged edge to the wide, humid expanse of the countryside. Here, the air carries a heavy, sweet scent of damp vegetation and sun-warmed pine needles, a stillness that seems to suspend the very atmosphere in the amber light of a fading afternoon.

De Kalb holds the quiet weight of a regional crossroads, a place where the economy has long been tethered to the slow pulse of timber and the seasonal rhythms of the surrounding woodlands. The architecture reflects a practicality born of generations of endurance, with modest brick storefronts and weathered porches that face the roads leading toward the deeper, wilder terrain of Okatibbee Wma or the quiet depression of Marsh Hollow. Life moves with a deliberate, unhurried gravity, defined by the small, necessary commerce of a county seat and the enduring patterns of those who work the land. It is a place where the history of the soil is spoken in the way the shadows lengthen across the fields, a lingering, persistent presence that feels as ancient and settled as the roots of the forest itself.

About This De Kalb Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of De Kalb, Mississippi. Coordinates: 32.767633, -88.650878. 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 De Kalb includes the ZIP code (39328), telephone area code (601), county seat of Kemper County (De Kalb), and school district assignment (Kemper 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.