Marks Mississippi Map

About Marks, Mississippi

Marks is a locality in Quitman County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,444. The population density is 434.6 people per km². Marks is located at 34.2565°N, 90.2720°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Marks is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38646.

Marks occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the Mississippi Delta where the sky asserts a vast, heavy presence over the horizon. It lies 17.5 miles east-northeast of Clarksdale, MS (from Clarksdale, MS: bearing 77°T), and is situated 19.1 miles west-southwest of Batesville. Cassidy Bayou cuts a quiet, serpentine path through this landscape, its dark water reflecting the shifting clouds that drift across the plains. Only two miles away, the still surface of Little Whiting Lake anchors the surrounding fields, providing a silent, shimmering counterpoint to the fertile earth. When the light fades at dusk, the moisture in the air softens the hard edges of the horizon, casting a violet hue over the fields while the distant silhouette of Annis Ridge remains a faint, jagged promise far to the east. Unknown Park provides a local threshold of green, where the dense, tangled growth of the region settles into a slow, deliberate cadence.

Marks functions as a rhythmic center for the agricultural life that has defined these plains for generations, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest. The legacy of the cotton industry lingers in the architecture and the wide, grid-like streets, though the modern pace of the locale is dictated more by the quiet persistence of its inhabitants than by the frantic industry of the past. Beyond the immediate reach of the town center, the terrain dips toward the basin of Viney Rough, an eleven-mile distance that emphasizes the subtle, unyielding flatness of the surrounding geography. Life here unfolds with a measured gravity, shaped by the humid heat of summer and the stark, open clarity of winter, marking a place where the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow turning of the soil and the persistent, quiet growth of the land.

About This Marks Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Marks, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.2565, -90.272038. 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 Marks includes the ZIP code (38646), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Quitman County (Marks), and school district assignment (Quitman 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.