Shubuta Mississippi Map

About Shubuta, Mississippi

Shubuta is a locality in Clarke County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 406. The population density is 65.0 people per km². Shubuta is located at 31.8602°N, 88.6995°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Shubuta is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39360.

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.

About This Shubuta Map Page

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).

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.