Sallis Mississippi Map

About Sallis, Mississippi

Sallis is a locality in Attala County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 131. The population density is 123.1 people per km². Sallis is located at 33.0224°N, 89.7654°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sallis is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39160.

Sallis occupies a quiet stretch of land defined by the deliberate, persistent flow of Long Creek. It lies 32.4 miles north-northeast of Canton, MS (from Canton, MS: bearing 29°T), and is situated 6.3 miles southeast of Durant. The landscape here favors the modest elevation of the interior, where the earth settles into a pattern of woodland and open fields that hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun to slant low. To the distant horizon, the silhouette of the Government Hills provides a faint, serrated edge against the sky, grounding the view in a permanence that ignores the frantic pace of the outside world. The air near the banks of Long Creek remains cool and damp, carrying the scent of disturbed silt and damp pine, while the nearby presence of Burrel Lake offers a still, reflective surface that mirrors the changing color of the clouds.

Sallis retains the quiet gravity of a place that has long measured its duration in harvests and the slow turnover of the seasons. The local economy remains tethered to the soil, reflecting a history of agrarian labor that shaped the modest architecture and the steady, unadorned character of the local streets. Those seeking a pause in the pace of life might find a spare solitude at the Martin L "Doc" Roby Memorial Park, where the trees provide a canopy that filters the light into thin, golden slivers. Life in Sallis moves with a predictable, internal logic, where the importance of a day is measured not by the accumulation of events, but by the maintenance of a routine that has endured, largely unchanged, through the passing of many years.

About This Sallis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sallis, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.022352, -89.76536. 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 Sallis includes the ZIP code (39160), telephone area code (601), county seat of Attala County (Kosciusko), and school district assignment (Attala 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.