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Pearlington Mississippi Map

Explore Pearlington, 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 Pearlington, Mississippi

How to Use This Pearlington, Mississippi Map

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

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

Latitude	30.246584
Longitude	-89.611167
Population	1,153
Density	48.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	39572
Area Code	228
County Seat	Bay St. Louis
School District	Hancock County School District

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About Pearlington, Mississippi

Pearlington is a locality in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,153. The population density is 48.8 people per km². Pearlington is located at 30.2466°N, 89.6112°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 39572.

Pearlington holds a quiet dominion over the low-slung, marshy expanse where the Pearl River spills its tea-colored waters toward the Gulf of Mexico. It lies 17.3 miles west-southwest of Bay St. Louis, MS (from Bay St. Louis, MS: bearing 256°T), and is situated 10.3 miles east of Slidell. This landscape is a labyrinth of brackish veins and silt, defined by the Hancock County Marsh Coastal Reserve which stretches its sawgrass fingers into the horizon. Only four miles away, the dark, still surface of North Pass mirrors the heavy, humid sky, while the slight rise of Desert Island breaks the monotony of the delta’s flat, shimmering reach. Here, the air is thick with the scent of salt and turning tides, and the light at dusk turns the tall reeds into a field of bruised copper, softening the edges of a world that feels perpetually caught between the river’s push and the sea’s pull.

Pearlington draws its character from the rhythms of the water, a place shaped by the industry of the river and the resilient labor of those who harvest the bounty of the coast. History here is written in the debris of storms and the stubborn growth of Spanish moss that clings to the ancient oaks, marking a survival that is both weary and profound. The local economy remains tethered to the shifting currents of the Gulf of Mexico, where the work of the waterman defines the passing hours more surely than any clock. In the quiet streets of Pearlington, life moves at the pace of the slow, muddy river, where the legacy of the past is not a museum piece but a living, breathing weight carried by the people who call this sodden, beautiful intersection of land and tide their own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hancock County Marsh Coastal Reserve (State Conservation Area) — 0.1 mi, 245° SW
Hancock County Marsh Coastal Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 0.2 mi, 256° W
Pearl River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.2 mi, 232° SW
US 90/190 Rest Area St. Tammany (State Recreation Area) — 4.1 mi, 253° W
Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 5.0 mi, 254° W · 56k acres
I-10 Rest Area (State Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 302° NW
Division Of State Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 7.6 mi, 203° SW
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 279° W
Slidell Auditorium (Theatre) — 10.3 mi, 281° W
Griffith Monument (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 281° W
September 11th Memorial (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 282° W
Buccaneer State Park (State Park) — 11.9 mi, 086° E
Bayou Savage National Wildlife Refuge (Marine Protected Area) — 12.0 mi, 229° SW
Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.8 mi, 327° NW · 73k acres
Camp Salmen Lodge (Historic Ruins) — 13.1 mi, 284° W
Bogue Chitto National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Study Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 16.7 mi, 329° NW · 9,317 acres
Mural at Katiecakes (Public Artwork) — 19.8 mi, 348° N
Mcdonald Funeral Home (Museum) — 19.8 mi, 347° N
Crackin Shells Dippin Tails (Attraction) — 19.9 mi, 347° N
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 20.1 mi, 347° N
Carver Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 346° N
Acadiana Cinema (Cinema) — 20.7 mi, 353° N
Collapsed Observarion Deck (Viewpoint) — 25.5 mi, 284° W
Sugar Mill Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 26.2 mi, 284° W
Gulf Islands National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 27.3 mi, 092° E · 213k acres
Lance Lumpkin Stadium (Stadium) — 28.7 mi, 074° E
Chalmette Movies (Cinema) — 29.8 mi, 227° SW
House of Dance & Feathers (Museum) — 30.9 mi, 231° SW
Paper Machine (Arts Centre) — 31.0 mi, 230° SW
Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum (Museum) — 31.4 mi, 232° SW

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