Rienzi Mississippi Map

About Rienzi, Mississippi

Rienzi is a locality in Alcorn County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 281. The population density is 109.6 people per km². Rienzi is located at 34.7659°N, 88.5267°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rienzi is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38865.

Rienzi occupies a quiet expanse of the northern Mississippi interior where the earth rises and falls in long, measured swells of clay and loam. It lies 11.6 miles south of Corinth, MS (from Corinth, MS: bearing 181°T), and is situated 7.8 miles north-northeast of Booneville. The air here holds a heavy, settled stillness, especially in the low-lying shadows of Piney Grove Hollow where the ground remains damp long after the sun has retreated. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of Bennett Ridge marks the limit of the horizon, while closer at hand, the terrain is defined by the steady, unobserved movement of Moores Creek. The light at dusk seems to thicken against the trees, turning the fields into a deep, bruised violet before the stars emerge over the dark water of Epps Lake.

Rienzi retains the enduring, quiet gravity of a place established when the railroad dictated the pulse of commerce and the movement of goods across the inland landscape. The local economy persists in a slow, deliberate engagement with the soil, favoring the cultivation of timber and the maintenance of small, private plots over the rapid shifts of modern industry. While the presence of Westside City Park offers a modest reach of greenery for recreation, the character of the place is found in the older, weathered wood of its quiet structures and the way the seasons color the local timber. Life moves according to the necessities of the land, marked by the steady passage of freight and the unchanging cycle of the harvests that define the region’s long-standing connection to the earth.

About This Rienzi Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rienzi, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.765925, -88.526717. 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 Rienzi includes the ZIP code (38865), telephone area code (662), county seat of Alcorn County (Corinth), and school district assignment (Alcorn 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.