Toomsuba Mississippi Map

About Toomsuba, Mississippi

Toomsuba is a locality in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 778. The population density is 64.1 people per km². Toomsuba is located at 32.4303°N, 88.5071°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 39364.

Toomsuba occupies a quiet expanse of the East Mississippi landscape where the earth settles into a slow, deliberate cadence. It lies 12.1 miles east-northeast of Meridian, MS (from Meridian, MS: bearing 72°T), and is situated 8.2 miles east of Marion. The winding trace of Toomsuba Creek defines the low-lying moisture of the local terrain, its waters carving a subtle artery through the thickets and heavy loam. Beyond the immediate banks, the land rises into modest swells that catch the amber light of late afternoon, casting long, lean shadows across the fields. While the horizon remains largely level, the distant suggestion of Thornton Hill anchors the view, providing a faint, jagged punctuation to the western sky. In the humid heat of the mid-afternoon, the air holds a heavy, static stillness, as if the very atmosphere is waiting for the cooling relief of a summer storm to break the tension of the pine-scented woods.

Toomsuba emerged from the intersections of transit and trade, evolving from the iron pulse of the railroad into a place defined by the steady work of agriculture and regional commerce. The local economy persists in a quiet rhythm, tethered to the freight of the highway and the productivity of the surrounding soil, far removed from the frantic noise of larger centers. Residents often look toward the recreational quiet of Bonita Lakes Park for a reprieve, or find a different sort of stillness near the surface of Dalewood Shore Lake, where the water mirrors the shifting cloud cover. The character of Toomsuba remains grounded in this deliberate pace, a place where the history of the soil and the daily labor of its inhabitants form a continuous, unostentatious life. Even as the decades pass, the fundamental nature of the life here remains tied to the land’s own enduring, silent temperament.

About This Toomsuba Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Toomsuba, Mississippi. Coordinates: 32.430282, -88.507088. 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 Toomsuba includes the ZIP code (39364), telephone area code (601), county seat of Lauderdale County (Meridian), and school district assignment (Lauderdale 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.