Explore Pearl, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pearl, 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 Pearl.
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 | Pearl |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | Simpson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.272456 |
| Longitude | -90.091827 |
| Population | 27,115 |
| Density | 410.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 39082, 39208, 39288 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| County Seat | Mendenhall |
| School District | Pearl Public School District |
Pearl stretches across a landscape where the earth holds the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped behind the western tree line. It lies 12.5 miles south-southeast of Byram, MS (from Byram, MS: bearing 167°T), and is situated 9.3 miles east of Crystal Springs. Barron Creek carves a winding, somber path through the lower reaches of the terrain, its waters moving with a quiet gravity that anchors the geography of Pearl to the clay-heavy soil. To the distant horizon, the land levels into the soft, muted transitions of the interior plain, punctuated only by the occasional rise of timber or the persistent, tangled sprawl of kudzu that claims the fence lines. The air here carries a heavy, terrestrial stillness, untempered by the breath of any distant tide, and in the twilight, the ground seems to exhale the day’s collected warmth into the cooling, darkening canopy of the pines.
Economic life in Pearl functions with a pragmatic, industrial momentum, sustained by the steady hum of commerce and transit that defines the region’s character. While the quietude of the land suggests a slower pace, the proximity to major crossroads has integrated the locality into the broader, restless movement of the interior economy, far from the influence of the coast. Residents seeking the respite of open space often look toward Parks And Recreation Park, where the managed green provides a contrast to the dense, unyielding thickets that otherwise dominate the brush. Those who wander further might find the stillness of Little Lake, a reflective basin five miles away that mirrors the gray, shifting clouds of the afternoon. History here is not written in grand monuments but in the persistent survival of the local trade and the enduring, deliberate rhythm of people navigating a world defined by the creek, the road, and the vast, inland expanse.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pearl, Mississippi. Coordinates: 32.272456, -90.091827. 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 Pearl includes the ZIP code (39082, 39208, 39288), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Simpson County (Mendenhall), and school district assignment (Pearl Public School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |