Monroe County, Mississippi Map
Explore Monroe County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 6 cities and towns in Monroe County below.
Interactive Map of Monroe County, Mississippi
| County | Monroe |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | Aberdeen |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 33.913259 |
| Longitude | -88.420597 |
| Cities & Towns | 6 |
| Area Codes | 662 |
About Monroe County, Mississippi
Monroe County occupies a transition where the black prairie soil gives way to the broken, wooded ridges of the northeastern interior. The Tombigbee River carves a vein through the landscape, its waters holding the heavy, silt-laden stillness of the deep South, feeding a basin that remains defined by the seasonal pulse of flood and drought. To the west, the land flattens into a persistent, open horizon, while the eastern borders climb into tangled thickets and pine barrens. The light here in the late afternoon possesses a distinct, bruised quality, turning the riverbanks a deep, oxidized copper that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped behind the tree line.
Monroe County took its formal shape in the early nineteenth century, organized from lands acquired through treaties that displaced the indigenous nations who had walked these woods for generations. Settlers arrived carrying the architecture of the Atlantic seaboard, establishing a seat of government at a point chosen for its proximity to the navigable river, which served as the primary artery for cotton and commerce. The courthouse square became the gravity well of the region, anchored by brick structures that have weathered the humidity and the slow shifting of the earth. History here is not a distant memory but a physical weight, manifest in the way the local cemeteries are reclaimed by wild honeysuckle and the way the old roads still follow the deer trails that predated the surveyor’s chain.
Industry and agriculture continue to define the day-to-day labor of the people, from the sprawling manufacturing plants that break the silence of the fields to the smaller, independent farms that still work the stubborn clay. The atmosphere is one of quiet persistence, where the air is thick with the scent of pine resin and wet earth, and the nights are dark enough to reveal a vast, indifferent expanse of stars. Life moves according to the demands of the weather and the clock, punctuated by the metallic hum of machinery and the distant, lonely call of a freight train crossing the river bridge. It is a place that demands a certain kind of endurance, where the inhabitants remain tied to the cycles of the seasons, watching the crops rise and fall against the backdrop of a sky that feels perpetually wider than the land beneath it.
Cities and Towns in Monroe County
About This Monroe County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Monroe County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 6 cities and towns. The county seat is Aberdeen. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
