Enter your search query in the box below.

Nitta Yuma Mississippi Map

Explore Nitta Yuma, 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 Nitta Yuma, Mississippi

How to Use This Nitta Yuma, Mississippi Map

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

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	Nitta Yuma
State	Mississippi (MS)
County	Sharkey County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.024292
Longitude	-90.849267
Population	8
Density	16.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	38721, 39159
Area Code	662, 601
County Seat	Rolling Fork
School District	South Delta School District

🌦 Goto Nitta Yuma Weather Page: Nitta Yuma, Mississippi — Weather Warnings, Forecast, Radar, Satellite & Current Conditions

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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.9 mi, 113° SE · 12k acres
Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.3 mi, 309° NW · 26k acres
Delta National Forest (National Forest) — 8.0 mi, 129° SE · 61k acres
Sunflower Wma (State Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 129° SE
Sunflower Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 137° SE
Over Cup Oak Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 10.7 mi, 139° SE
Green Ash Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 10.9 mi, 152° SE
Leroy Percy State Park (State Park) — 11.2 mi, 335° NW
Sunflower Waterfowl Project (Nature Reserve) — 13.2 mi, 165° S
Greenville Cypress Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 27.6 mi, 333° NW
E.E. Bass Cultural Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 28.8 mi, 336° NW
Greenville History Museum (Museum) — 29.4 mi, 335° NW
Charley Patton (Monument) — 29.5 mi, 010° N
Club Ebony - Indianola (Monument) — 31.5 mi, 022° N
Nathaniel 'Slim' Jack (Monument) — 31.7 mi, 022° N
Poverty Point World Heritage Site (Museum) — 41.9 mi, 230° SW
Rice-Totten Stadium (Stadium) — 44.5 mi, 041° NE
USS Cairo (Attraction) — 44.8 mi, 181° S
Battery De Golyer (Public Artwork) — 46.0 mi, 179° S
Lower Mississippi River Museum (Museum) — 46.4 mi, 182° S
Mississippi River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 48.8 mi, 183° S
South Fort (Historic Castle / Fort) — 49.0 mi, 183° S
Florewood River Plantation Museum (Museum) — 49.2 mi, 045° NE
Martin & Sue King Railroad Museum (Museum) — 50.2 mi, 008° N
Dockery Farms (Attraction) — 50.5 mi, 015° N
Charlie Capps WMA (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 58.4 mi, 354° N

Latest News: Nitta Yuma

Loading news…

World News

Loading news-world…

More World News