Nitta Yuma Mississippi Map

About Nitta Yuma, Mississippi

Nitta Yuma is a locality in Sharkey County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 8. The population density is 16.1 people per km². Nitta Yuma is located at 33.0243°N, 90.8493°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 38721, 39159.

Nitta Yuma occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the Mississippi Delta where the horizon seems to pull the sky down toward the dark, heavy earth. It lies 28.3 miles west-northwest of Yazoo City, MS (from Yazoo City, MS: bearing 295°T), and is situated 8.3 miles north-northeast of Rolling Fork. Deer Creek carves a slow, serpentine path through the landscape, its banks shaded by ancient oaks draped in heavy curtains of Spanish moss that sway in the humid, stagnant air. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain remains stubbornly level, offering a stark, unadorned beauty that sharpens under the amber light of late afternoon. While Backbone Ridge remains a distant, hazy suggestion on the far horizon, the immediate world is defined by the dense, tangled greenery of the Delta National Forest and the quiet, protected wetlands of the Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge, where the silence is broken only by the sudden flight of a heron.

Nitta Yuma persists as a quiet testament to the cycles of agriculture that have long dictated the rhythm of life in this corner of the state. The economy remains tethered to the soil, with vast, orderly rows of crops extending toward the horizon, reflecting a history of plantation labor and persistent agrarian labor that defines the local character. Life here moves at the pace of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pulse of industrial centers, finding its focus instead in the local commerce that serves those who work the land. Residents find their recreation in the proximity of Little Basin and the stillness of Long Pond, places where the water mirrors the gray, heavy clouds of the Delta. In the evenings, the air cools and settles, leaving Nitta Yuma to exist in a state of deliberate, enduring stillness that feels unchanged by the passing of decades.

About This Nitta Yuma Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Nitta Yuma, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.024292, -90.849267. 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 Nitta Yuma includes the ZIP code (38721, 39159), telephone area code (662, 601), county seat of Sharkey County (Rolling Fork), and school district assignment (South Delta 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.