Holcomb Mississippi Map

About Holcomb, Mississippi

Holcomb is a locality in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 568. The population density is 46.2 people per km². Holcomb is located at 33.7612°N, 89.9759°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 38940.

Holcomb reveals itself through a landscape of heavy, fertile loam where the horizon holds a stillness born of deep inland plains. It lies 9.6 miles west of Grenada, MS (from Grenada, MS: bearing 267°T), and is situated 20.6 miles northeast of Greenwood. Low-slung fields stretch toward the perimeter of the horizon, where the distant, hazy silhouette of Crescent Ridge marks the edge of the world, seventeen miles removed from the quiet center of the grid. Within a mile of the dwellings, the currents of Cane Creek trace a slow, muddy path through the silt, feeding the damp earth that supports the encroaching thickets of hardwood. Only three miles away, the surface of Durgin Lake mirrors the humid sky, a stagnant expanse of water that anchors the stillness of the afternoon. The light here settles thick and amber, turning the dust of the unpaved lanes into a fine, golden powder that clings to the stalks of late-season crops.

Holcomb remains a place defined by the slow labor of the field and the quiet endurance of its agrarian foundations, rooted in a soil that demands a patient harvest. The surrounding acreage, bolstered by the proximity of Malmaison Wma just four miles distant, serves as a refuge for the wilder, uncultivated remnants of the delta fringe. Economic life here pulses with the seasonal cycle of planting and reaping, a rhythm that has dictated the pace of Holcomb for generations of families who know the land by its temperament rather than its yield. No grand monuments rise above the tree line; instead, the character of the place resides in the way the morning mist clings to the low-lying timber, and in the unspoken history shared by those who continue to work the heavy, dark clay.

About This Holcomb Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Holcomb, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.761227, -89.97592. 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 Holcomb includes the ZIP code (38940), telephone area code (228), county seat of Grenada County (Grenada), and school district assignment (Grenada 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.