Grenada County, Mississippi Map
Explore Grenada County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 3 cities and towns in Grenada County below.
Interactive Map of Grenada County, Mississippi
| County | Grenada |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | Grenada |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 33.737895 |
| Longitude | -89.84453 |
| Cities & Towns | 3 |
| Area Codes | 228 |
About Grenada County, Mississippi
Grenada County occupies a space where the alluvial flatness of the northern Delta abruptly yields to the stubborn, wooded rise of the loess bluffs. This transition creates a landscape defined by the convergence of the Yalobusha and Skuna rivers, which eventually pool into the expansive, man-made reservoir that dominates the northern horizon. The earth here is heavy and moisture-rich, holding the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has dipped behind the loblolly pines. During the height of midsummer, the humidity thickens until the air feels almost tactile, refracting the evening light into long, bruised shades of violet and ochre that settle over the drainage basins and the tangled thickets of wild muscadine.
Grenada County emerged during the mid-nineteenth century, carved from the territories of neighboring jurisdictions to formalize the governance of a burgeoning inland trade center. Its administrative seat came into existence through the merging of two distinct settlements that sat on opposite banks of the river, a union necessitated by the arrival of the railroad and the subsequent demand for a unified hub. The architecture of the older districts reflects this period of ambition, featuring tall, narrow storefronts of weathered brick and high-ceilinged homes that seem to guard their own secrets behind iron-wrought gates. The past here is not a distant abstraction but a persistent gravity, felt in the way the local streets follow the original, irregular survey lines that once marked the boundaries of colonial land grants.
Commerce and daily life today remain anchored to the cycles of the agricultural calendar, where the planting and harvest of soybeans and cotton dictate the pace of the county. The economy has shifted to accommodate manufacturing and the seasonal influx of outdoorsmen drawn to the reservoir’s expansive water, yet the fundamental character of the region remains tied to the soil and the slow, deliberate movement of the local population. On any given Tuesday, the town square feels less like a commercial zone and more like a quiet clearing where the velocity of the modern world simply loses its momentum. The stillness of the morning is often punctuated by the low, mournful call of a distant train, a sound that resonates across the open fields and serves as a reminder of the vast, quiet distance that separates this geography from the frantic noise of the coast.
Cities and Towns in Grenada County
About This Grenada County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Grenada County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 3 cities and towns. The county seat is Grenada. 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 |
