Osyka Mississippi Map

About Osyka, Mississippi

Osyka is a locality in Pike County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 381. The population density is 138.9 people per km². Osyka is located at 31.0068°N, 90.4723°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Osyka is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39657.

Osyka stands as a quiet sentinel of the piney woods, anchored to the landscape by the deep, persistent silence that settles over the rolling inland terrain. It lies 16.4 miles south of McComb, MS (from McComb, MS: bearing 184°T), and is situated 9.5 miles south of Magnolia. The Tangipahoa River carves a serpentine path just a mile from the center, its dark, tea-colored waters moving with a deliberate, gravity-fed patience toward the south. Beyond the immediate canopy, the land dips into the shaded, humid depression of Chubby Bottom, where the air holds the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves long after the sun has retreated. Sunlight here does not merely shine; it filters through the dense, tangled thickets of kudzu and high-reaching hardwoods, casting a long, amber glow that makes the very atmosphere feel thick, heavy, and saturated with the slow passage of hours.

History in Osyka remains etched in the quiet persistence of its residents, who have long looked to the surrounding timber and fertile soil to sustain their way of life. While the bustle of larger industrial hubs feels a world away, the proximity to the Tangipahoa River provides a natural corridor for wildlife and a reminder of the region’s enduring agricultural roots. The economy, once tethered to the iron rails that cut through the heart of the landscape, now relies on a modest, steady rhythm of local trade and the stewardship of the land. Even with the distant, faint silhouette of Bogue Chitto Mountain marking the horizon, the focus of Osyka stays firmly on the immediate, tangible world—the rustle of wind through pine needles and the patient, unhurried work of those who call this particular stretch of the earth home.

About This Osyka Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Osyka, Mississippi. Coordinates: 31.006845, -90.472318. 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 Osyka includes the ZIP code (39657), telephone area code (228), county seat of Pike County (Magnolia), and school district assignment (South Pike 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.