Isola Mississippi Map

About Isola, Mississippi

Isola is a locality in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 638. The population density is 333.3 people per km². Isola is located at 33.2621°N, 90.5923°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Isola is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38754.

Isola occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the Delta where the earth meets the sky in a seamless, hazy horizon. It lies 29.0 miles east-southeast of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 111°T), and is situated 13.5 miles south-southeast of Indianola. Jackson Bayou carves a slow, muddy path through the fields, its dark, sluggish surface mirroring the heavy heat of mid-afternoon. To the east, the land remains stubbornly level, a vast alluvial plain that stretches toward the distant, faint suggestion of Backbone Ridge. Three miles away, the acreage managed by the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms offers a quiet sanctuary for migratory birds, while the waters of Charlewan Lake lie four miles off, holding a stillness that seems to absorb the very sound of the wind. The light here has a peculiar, syrupy quality, thickening as it hits the cotton leaves, turning the air into a shimmering veil that softens the edges of every fence line and rusted silo.

Isola emerged from the ambition of planters who understood the potential of this dark, heavy loam, transforming the wilderness into a landscape defined by the industry of aquaculture and row crops. The rhythm of daily life is dictated by the turning seasons of the harvest, with the town’s identity deeply rooted in the production of farm-raised catfish, an enterprise that has shaped the local economy and defined the labor of generations. While the pace of the day moves with the deliberate gait of a mule, there is a persistent, quiet pride in the persistence of the settlement against the encroaching wild. Visitors often find that the stillness is not an absence of activity, but a concentrated focus, where the history of the soil is written in the furrows of the fields and the weathered facades of the main thoroughfare.

About This Isola Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Isola, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.262066, -90.592314. 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 Isola includes the ZIP code (38754), telephone area code (662), county seat of Humphreys County (Belzoni), and school district assignment (Humphreys 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.