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Moorhead Mississippi Map

Explore Moorhead, 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 Moorhead, Mississippi

How to Use This Moorhead, Mississippi Map

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

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

Latitude	33.45012
Longitude	-90.505643
Population	1,937
Density	577.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	38761
Area Code	662
County Seat	Indianola
School District	Sunflower County Consolidated School District

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About Moorhead, Mississippi

Moorhead is a locality in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,937. The population density is 577.5 people per km². Moorhead is located at 33.4501°N, 90.5056°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Moorhead is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38761.

Moorhead stretches across a flat, expansive horizon where the sky claims more territory than the earth, defined by the relentless geometry of furrowed fields and the quiet persistence of the Delta. It lies 19.3 miles west-southwest of Greenwood, MS (from Greenwood, MS: bearing 256°T), and is situated 8.6 miles east of Indianola. The landscape here is a study in horizontal lines, broken only by the occasional stand of hardwoods or the thin, reflective ribbon of Moorhead Bayou, which cuts through the silt a mile away. Two miles distant, the surface of Long Lake holds the heavy, golden light of late afternoon, mirroring the clouds in a stillness that feels permanent. While the jagged silhouette of Egypt Ridge remains a distant, faint suggestion thirty-two miles off, the immediate world belongs to the fertile, dark soil and the expansive sky that shifts from bruised violet to pale amber as the day wanes. At the center of this expanse, Unknown Park provides a modest, localized space where the regional stillness gathers, offering a pause in the steady, quiet rhythm of the plains.

History in Moorhead exists in the quiet architecture of the buildings and the stubborn endurance of an agrarian economy that has long parsed the seasons by the planting and harvesting of crops. The pace of life is dictated by the slow, deliberate work of the fields, a cycle that has shaped the local character and the way people move through the day with a focused, unhurried grace. Education serves as a vital pillar here, providing a foundation for those who live amidst the vast, cultivated stretches of the region. Despite the absence of dramatic elevation, the land possesses a deep, resonant quality, where the heat of the afternoon seems to hum against the pavement and the air carries the faint, sweet scent of damp earth. Moorhead remains a place where the weight of time is measured not in grand monuments, but in the enduring texture of the fields and the way the shadows lengthen across the flat, open ground as evening approaches.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 264° W
Brookside Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 130° SE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.5 mi, 336° NW · 20k acres
YANKY-72 Crash Site (Monument) — 3.4 mi, 077° E
YANKY-72 Cross (Monument) — 3.6 mi, 077° E
Nathaniel 'Slim' Jack (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 270° W
Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 8.8 mi, 274° W
Sky Lake Wma (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 167° S
Rice-Totten Stadium (Stadium) — 10.2 mi, 066° NE
Indianola Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.2 mi, 319° NW
Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.3 mi, 131° SE · 12k acres
Florewood River Plantation State Park (State Park) — 15.5 mi, 070° E
Museum of the Mississippi Delta (Museum) — 17.8 mi, 072° E
Dockery Farms (Attraction) — 20.3 mi, 342° N
Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum (Museum) — 23.8 mi, 328° NW
E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 31.8 mi, 264° W
Greenville History Museum (Museum) — 32.1 mi, 265° W
Greenville Cypress Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 32.9 mi, 261° W
Delta National Forest (National Forest) — 36.0 mi, 196° S · 61k acres
Charlie Capps WMA (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 38.7 mi, 318° NW
Great River Road State Park (State Park) — 40.1 mi, 312° NW
Christ Centered Cross (Public Artwork) — 44.6 mi, 059° NE
Sunflower Waterfowl Project (Nature Reserve) — 45.2 mi, 201° S
Confederate fort (Historic Castle / Fort) — 48.5 mi, 061° NE
Confederate redoubt (Historic Castle / Fort) — 48.7 mi, 060° NE
Holly Springs National Forest (National Forest) — 50.1 mi, 050° NE · 156k acres
Kosciusko Heritage Foundation Museum (Museum) — 60.6 mi, 118° SE
Canton Train Museum (Museum) — 63.9 mi, 155° SE
Mound D (Historic Ruins) — 70.2 mi, 028° NE

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