Explore Shubuta, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Shubuta, 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 Shubuta.
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 | Shubuta |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | Clarke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.860155 |
| Longitude | -88.699485 |
| Population | 406 |
| Density | 65.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 39360 |
| Area Code | 601 |
| County Seat | Quitman |
| School District | Quitman School District |
Shubuta emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed interior of the landscape where the heat hangs heavy and still, pressing against the red clay earth like a physical weight. It lies 27.8 miles east-northeast of Laurel, MS (from Laurel, MS: bearing 66°T), and is situated 13.2 miles north-northwest of Waynesboro. The Chickasawhay River carves a serpentine path just one mile away, its dark waters moving with a deliberate, silent gravity that dictates the moisture of the air and the emerald thickness of the surrounding thickets. Beyond the immediate canopy, the terrain rises into subtle, verdant swells, a prelude to the distant Hog Wallow Ridge that marks the horizon in a haze of muted violet. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate; it saturates the leaves of the hardwoods, turning the afternoon into a cathedral of shifting gold and deep, cooling shade. Four miles distant, the waters of McCormick Cutoff remain undisturbed, reflecting the sky in a mirror of glass that seems to hold the quiet history of the basin in its stillness.
Shubuta bears the indelible marks of a long, arduous settlement, its architecture a collection of weathered wood and stubborn brick that has outlasted the shifts of timber mills and the slow transition of agricultural life. The economy, once tethered to the rhythmic labor of the forest and the soil, now moves with a cautious, lingering pace, reflecting a resilience born of generations who learned to thrive in the humid, inland isolation. To the north, the expanse of Unknown Park offers a quiet refuge of managed wilderness, a sanctuary that keeps the memory of the original forest alive against the encroachment of time. People here move with an awareness of the distance between them and the frantic pulse of the modern world, preferring the steady, predictable cycles of the seasons. In the quiet hours of dusk, the air carries the scent of damp loam and pine resin, a fragrance that defines the character of Shubuta more than any record or map ever could.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Shubuta, Mississippi. Coordinates: 31.860155, -88.699485. 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 Shubuta includes the ZIP code (39360), telephone area code (601), county seat of Clarke County (Quitman), and school district assignment (Quitman School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |