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Paden Mississippi Map

Explore Paden, 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 Paden, Mississippi

How to Use This Paden, Mississippi Map

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

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

Latitude	34.659816
Longitude	-88.265878
Population	104
Density	44.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	38873
Area Code	662
County Seat	Iuka
School District	Tishomingo County Schools

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Divide Section (State Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 272° W
Tishomingo State Park (State Park) — 4.3 mi, 126° SE
Waterfall (Viewpoint) — 6.3 mi, 124° SE
Cave Springs (Historic Ruins) — 7.2 mi, 099° E
Brunton Mound (Historic Ruins) — 7.7 mi, 098° E
Freedom Hills Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.5 mi, 057° NE
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway at G. V. Montgomery (Recreation Area) — 12.6 mi, 197° S
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 14.2 mi, 127° SE
J.P. Coleman State Park (State Park) — 16.3 mi, 018° N
Bonner Arnold Coliseum (Stadium) — 16.9 mi, 272° W
Thomas State Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 17.2 mi, 095° E
Cherokee Military Memorial (Monument) — 17.9 mi, 068° E
Lauderdale Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 19.2 mi, 024° NE · 20k acres
W.M. Browning Cretaceous Fossil Park Monument (Monument) — 21.4 mi, 256° W
Caboose (Attraction) — 23.9 mi, 322° NW
Northeast Mississippi Museum (Museum) — 24.3 mi, 323° NW
Seven-mile Island Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 24.6 mi, 074° E · 3,204 acres
Jamie L. Whitten Historical Center (Museum) — 27.0 mi, 199° S
Key Cave National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.2 mi, 076° E · 2,106 acres
Battery of canons (Monument) — 32.6 mi, 353° N
Natchez Trace Visitors Center (Museum) — 34.0 mi, 228° SW
Norton Auditorium (Theatre) — 34.7 mi, 073° E
Romeo and Juliet (Public Artwork) — 34.8 mi, 073° E
Shoals Community Theatre (Theatre) — 34.9 mi, 074° E
F-105 Thunderchief (Attraction) — 36.0 mi, 221° SW
Tupelo Buffalo Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 38.5 mi, 229° SW
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 39.5 mi, 110° E · 182k acres
Davis Bridge Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 39.5 mi, 310° NW
Holly Springs National Forest (National Forest) — 40.6 mi, 282° W · 156k acres
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 47.7 mi, 117° SE · 26k acres

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