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Marks Mississippi Map

Explore Marks, 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.

Interactive Map of Marks, Mississippi

How to Use This Marks, Mississippi Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Marks, 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 Marks.

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	Marks
State	Mississippi (MS)
County	Quitman County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	34.2565
Longitude	-90.272038
Population	1,444
Density	434.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	38646
Area Code	601, 769
County Seat	Marks
School District	Quitman County School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 337° NW
Locust Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 163° S
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.7 mi, 163° S · 20k acres
O'Keefe Wma (State Conservation Area) — 6.9 mi, 180° S
Coldwater River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.3 mi, 136° SE · 5,028 acres
Charles Ray Nix Wma (State Conservation Area) — 16.2 mi, 055° NE
The Crossroads (Monument) — 17.2 mi, 256° W
Mound D (Historic Ruins) — 20.7 mi, 073° E
Mound C (Historic Ruins) — 20.8 mi, 073° E
Enid Lake (Recreation Area) — 22.0 mi, 108° E
George P. Cossar State Park (State Park) — 23.3 mi, 111° E
Spirit of the American Doughboy Monument (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 317° NW
Father Pere Marquette Statue (Public Artwork) — 26.8 mi, 315° NW
Ophelia Polk Moore (Monument) — 26.9 mi, 318° NW
Holly Springs National Forest (National Forest) — 27.6 mi, 126° SE · 156k acres
Lily Peter Auditorium (Theatre) — 28.0 mi, 315° NW
John W. Kyle State Park (State Park) — 28.3 mi, 068° E
St. Francis National Forest (National Forest) — 28.3 mi, 320° NW · 21k acres
Sardis Lake (Recreation Area) — 28.4 mi, 066° NE
Point 8 (Viewpoint) — 36.9 mi, 068° E
Dockery Farms (Attraction) — 41.4 mi, 209° SW
Malco Oxford Studio Cinema (Cinema) — 42.1 mi, 079° E
Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center (Attraction) — 42.4 mi, 080° E
Studio Whimzy (Arts Centre) — 42.5 mi, 078° E
Confederate redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 42.7 mi, 138° SE
The Grove (Attraction) — 42.9 mi, 080° E
Confederate fort (Historic Castle / Fort) — 43.3 mi, 138° SE
Burns-Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center (Museum) — 43.4 mi, 080° E
Southside Gallery (Gallery) — 43.6 mi, 080° E
Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum (Museum) — 43.9 mi, 216° SW

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