Sidon Mississippi Map

About Sidon, Mississippi

Sidon is a locality in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 311. The population density is 968.4 people per km². Sidon is located at 33.4082°N, 90.2040°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sidon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38954.

Sidon emerges from the flat, alluvial expanse of the Mississippi Delta like a quiet thought held in the mind of the prairie. It lies 7.6 miles south of Greenwood, MS (from Greenwood, MS: bearing 191°T), and is situated 33.8 miles southwest of Grenada. The landscape surrounding Sidon is defined by an absolute, heavy horizontal gravity, where the horizon line stretches thin and sharp against a sky that seems to possess more weight than the earth itself. Two miles to the west, the dark, slow-moving waters of Catfish Bayou carve a vein through the silt, while the still, reflective surface of Bee Lake gathers the dusk in its basin. Beyond the immediate fields, the elevation shifts only slightly toward the distant rise of Millers Hill, a modest protrusion that punctuates the otherwise relentless levelness of the terrain. When the sun begins to retreat, the light here turns a bruised, honeyed gold, catching the dust of the fields and suspended moisture in a way that makes the entire plain appear to breathe.

Sidon persists as a relic of the agrarian ambition that once defined the soul of the region, its economy tethered to the deep, dark fertility of the soil and the seasonal pulse of the harvest. The presence of the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms nearby serves as a quiet acknowledgment of the land’s enduring role in the national cycle of production, grounding the residents in a long, unbroken lineage of labor. Life in Sidon moves with the deliberate, unforced cadence of a pendulum, indifferent to the frantic velocity of the outside world. Here, the architecture of the past—faded brick and weathered wood—stands in silent conversation with the encroaching kudzu, which seeks to reclaim the edges of the roads. It is a place where history is not a collection of dates, but a persistent atmosphere that clings to the air, felt in the stillness of a porch at noon and the way the shadows lengthen across the cotton rows as the day exhales.

About This Sidon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sidon, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.408178, -90.203973. 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 Sidon includes the ZIP code (38954), telephone area code (228), county seat of Leflore County (Greenwood), and school district assignment (Greenwood-Leflore 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.