Paden Mississippi Map

About Paden, Mississippi

Paden is a locality in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 104. The population density is 44.6 people per km². Paden is located at 34.6598°N, 88.2659°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Paden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38873.

Paden emerges from the quiet, red-clay topography of Tishomingo County, where the earth holds a persistent, iron-rich warmth. It lies 23.9 miles southeast of Corinth, MS (from Corinth, MS: bearing 142°T), and is situated 17.1 miles east of Booneville. The Black Branch cuts a winding, narrow furrow through the landscape, its dark, slow-moving waters providing a constant, reflective companion to the dense woodlands that define the territory. Within the immediate reach of Paden, the Divide Section offers a protected expanse of wild timber and quiet, shaded clearings that soften the transition between human cultivation and the untamed brush. To the west, the silhouettes of Riddle Wind Ridge rise against the horizon like a serrated spine, while the expansive surface of Bay Springs Lake glimmers two miles away, holding the sky in its depths and cooling the heavy, humid air of the afternoon.

Paden keeps time with the steady, unadorned pulse of a region shaped by the stubborn necessities of agriculture and the slow reclamation of the forest. The local character is built upon the remnants of early settlement, where the economy has long favored the yield of the soil and the quiet labor of the timber trade. Daily life in Paden follows the arc of the sun, marked by the long shadows that stretch from the distant Clausel Hill Bottom as the light fails. There is a particular, enduring stillness here, a sense that the inhabitants are merely guests of the deep woods and the persistent, crawling green of the kudzu that claims the fence lines. It is a place where the history is written not in grand monuments, but in the enduring, quiet persistence of those who remain, tethered to the land by the same red dust that has settled over the paths for generations.

About This Paden Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Paden, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.659816, -88.265878. 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 Paden includes the ZIP code (38873), telephone area code (662), county seat of Tishomingo County (Iuka), and school district assignment (Tishomingo County Schools).

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.