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Delta City Mississippi Map

Explore Delta City, 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 Delta City, Mississippi

How to Use This Delta City, Mississippi Map

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

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	Delta City
State	Mississippi (MS)
County	Sharkey County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.074013
Longitude	-90.795098
Population	70
Density	11.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	39159, 39061
Area Code	601, 769
County Seat	Rolling Fork
School District	South Delta School District

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About Delta City, Mississippi

Delta City is a locality in Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 70. The population density is 11.3 people per km². Delta City is located at 33.0740°N, 90.7951°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 39159, 39061.

Delta City emerges from the flat, alluvial expanse as a quiet intersection of earth and sky where the horizon stretches thin and pale against the heat. It lies 27.2 miles northwest of Yazoo City, MS (from Yazoo City, MS: bearing 304°T), and is situated 7.4 miles south-southeast of Hollandale. Fish Bayou snakes through the low-lying silt just a mile to the west, its dark waters moving with a deliberate, heavy stillness that mirrors the thick, humid air of the plains. To the north, the terrain dips into the subtle, verdant depressions of Little Basin, while the distant, jagged silhouette of Backbone Ridge marks the far western limit of the view. The landscape here is defined by the relentless leveling of the soil, a vast, open theater where the evening light turns the dust into a fine, golden haze, settling over the fields like a shroud of amber.

Delta City owes its quiet endurance to the rhythm of the surrounding acreage, where the economy remains bound to the cycles of the furrowed ground and the seasonal yields of the harvest. Six miles out, the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge preserves a sanctuary of wetlands and canopy, a stark contrast to the cleared, productive fields that define the regional character. Life moves with an unforced gravity, shaped by the legacy of laborers who worked this heavy clay and the enduring influence of the land itself upon the local temperament. Those who remain here are attuned to the shifting shadows of the afternoon, watching as the sun drops behind the distant trees, leaving the quiet streets of Delta City to cool in the lengthening, violet gloom.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.1 mi, 155° SE · 12k acres
Holt Collier National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.3 mi, 359° N · 5,992 acres
Leroy Percy Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 309° NW
Delta National Forest (National Forest) — 9.1 mi, 160° S · 61k acres
Sunflower Wma (State Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 160° S
Leroy Percy State Park (State Park) — 10.4 mi, 310° NW
Green Ash Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 13.2 mi, 171° S
Sunflower Waterfowl Project (Nature Reserve) — 16.2 mi, 179° S
Charley Patton (Monument) — 25.7 mi, 005° N
Greenville Cypress Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 26.3 mi, 323° NW
Club Ebony - Indianola (Monument) — 27.2 mi, 018° N
E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 27.3 mi, 327° NW
Nathaniel 'Slim' Jack (Monument) — 27.4 mi, 018° N
Greenville History Museum (Museum) — 27.9 mi, 327° NW
Rice-Totten Stadium (Stadium) — 39.8 mi, 041° NE
Florewood River Plantation Museum (Museum) — 44.5 mi, 045° NE
Museum of the Mississippi Delta (Museum) — 46.0 mi, 047° NE
Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum (Museum) — 46.4 mi, 005° N
Dockery Farms (Attraction) — 46.4 mi, 013° N
Poverty Point World Heritage Site (Museum) — 46.5 mi, 230° SW
USS Cairo (Attraction) — 48.4 mi, 185° S
Battery De Golyer (Public Artwork) — 49.5 mi, 183° S
Mississippi River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 52.4 mi, 187° S
South Fort (Historic Castle / Fort) — 52.7 mi, 187° S
Charlie Capps WMA (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 55.4 mi, 350° N

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