Explore Isola, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Isola, 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 Isola.
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 | Isola |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | Humphreys County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.262066 |
| Longitude | -90.592314 |
| Population | 638 |
| Density | 333.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 38754 |
| Area Code | 662 |
| County Seat | Belzoni |
| School District | Humphreys County School District |
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.
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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).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |