Pearl Mississippi Map

About Pearl, Mississippi

Pearl is a locality in Simpson County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of 27,115. The population density is 410.8 people per km². Pearl is located at 32.2725°N, 90.0918°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pearl is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 39082, 39208, 39288.

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.

About This Pearl Map Page

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).

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.