Redwater Mississippi Map

About Redwater, Mississippi

Redwater is a locality in Leake County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 683. The population density is 25.1 people per km². Redwater is located at 32.7928°N, 89.5534°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 39051.

Redwater exhales a humid, golden warmth that seems to slow the very pulse of the afternoon as the sun dips toward the Government Hills. It lies 31.0 miles east-northeast of Canton, MS (from Canton, MS: bearing 70°T), and is situated 2.4 miles north of Carthage. The sluggish, dark-stained flow of Town Creek carves a winding path through the landscape, its banks thick with the heavy scent of damp earth and tangled vines that cling to the pine trunks. Only four miles away, the surface of Langston Lake mirrors the shifting violet of the dusk, holding the stillness of the deep woods in its glass. Beyond the immediate canopy, the land expands into a quiet expanse of clay and silt, where the light turns thick and syrupy, catching the dust kicked up by the evening breeze.

Redwater carries the weight of a long-settled quiet, a place where the economy still leans into the slow rotation of the seasons and the yield of the surrounding fields. Generations have anchored their lives here, moving between the modest storefronts and the verdant, shaded trails of Mcmillian Park, where the trees hold the silence of the past in their branches. The town operates with a gravity that honors the labor of the soil and the legacy of those who first cleared these woods to build homes against the encroaching thicket. On quiet days, the distance to the distant, open stretches of Palmetto Flats feels vast, leaving the residents of Redwater to find their own measure of time in the steady, rhythmic persistence of the local harvest and the persistent, unhurried growth of the timber.

About This Redwater Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Redwater, Mississippi. Coordinates: 32.792793, -89.55336. 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 Redwater includes the ZIP code (39051), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Leake County (Carthage), and school district assignment (Leake County 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.