Scott Mississippi Map

About Scott, Mississippi

Scott is a locality in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 90. The population density is 77.9 people per km². Scott is located at 33.5918°N, 91.0743°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 38772.

Scott occupies a flat, expansive stretch of alluvial plain where the horizon seems to pull the sky down toward the earth. It lies 12.6 miles north of Greenville, MS (from Greenville, MS: bearing 357°T), and is situated 16.4 miles northwest of Leland. Deer Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its dark water mirroring the heavy limbs of cypress and the occasional flutter of a heron’s wing. Beyond the immediate fields, the silhouette of Egypt Ridge rises faintly in the distance, a reminder of the shifting topography that defines this inland geography. Only a mile away, the quiet surface of Lake Bolivar catches the amber light of late afternoon, holding the stillness of a land that measures time in the slow growth of crops and the deepening shadows of the afternoon.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Scott, where the soil dictates the rhythm of the seasons and the cycle of labor. The legacy of the Delta Experimental Forest persists in the regional memory, a testament to a long commitment to understanding the timber and fiber that once defined the economy of these plains. Residents look toward the nearby Choctaw Island for a sense of the wild, where the dense growth keeps the pace of the world at a distance. Life in Scott moves with the gravity of the fields, a quiet persistence that ignores the frantic acceleration of the outside world, favoring instead the steady, reliable weight of the harvest and the cooling air that settles over the Delta as the sun retreats.

About This Scott Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Scott, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.591779, -91.074275. 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 Scott includes the ZIP code (38772), telephone area code (662), county seat of Bolivar County (Cleveland), and school district assignment (West Bolivar Consolidated 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.