Durant Mississippi Map

About Durant, Mississippi

Durant is a locality in Holmes County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,231. The population density is 384.6 people per km². Durant is located at 33.0751°N, 89.8545°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Durant is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39063.

Durant occupies a quiet fold of the Mississippi landscape where the horizon softens into the haze of the interior plain. It lies 33.7 miles north-northeast of Canton, MS (from Canton, MS: bearing 18°T), and is situated 15.5 miles west of Kosciusko. Low ridges ripple outward from the center of the grid, their slopes thick with the tangled, velvet grip of kudzu that swallows fence lines and old timber in a slow, green migration. The humid air here holds a weight that seems to pause the very movement of the light, especially near the narrow, silt-heavy path of Indian Creek as it cuts through the clay soil a mile away. At the edge of the residential streets, Martin L "Doc" Roby Memorial Park offers a modest clearing where the pines stand as silent sentinels, watching the sun drag long, amber shadows across the grass until the heat of the day finally concedes to the cool, rising damp of the evening.

Durant grew from the iron pulse of the railroad, a junction point where the rhythmic clatter of freight once defined the reach and ambition of the local economy. The legacy of those tracks remains in the weathered brick facades and the sturdy, unadorned architecture that lines the thoroughfares, reflecting a history bound to the movement of timber, cotton, and the labor that sustained the region. While the pace of modern commerce has shifted, the character of the place persists in the deliberate, measured way the day unfolds, far from the frantic speed of the coast. For those who wander beyond the immediate streets, the distant silhouette of Arnold Mountain provides a faint, jagged punctuation mark against the sky, while the quiet water of Country Club Lake rests thirteen miles away, a still mirror for the vast, inland expanse of the Mississippi canopy.

About This Durant Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Durant, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.075129, -89.854528. 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 Durant includes the ZIP code (39063), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Holmes County (Lexington), and school district assignment (Holmes County Consolidated 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.