Tula Mississippi Map

About Tula, Mississippi

Tula is a locality in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 197. The population density is 20.0 people per km². Tula is located at 34.2329°N, 89.3623°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 38655, 38675.

Tula emerges from the dense, tangled canopy of northern Mississippi as a quiet intersection of red-clay earth and shadowed timber. It lies 12.9 miles southeast of Oxford, MS (from Oxford, MS: bearing 136°T), and is situated 13.1 miles southeast of University. The landscape surrounding Tula is defined by the heavy, humid stillness of upland forests, where sunlight filters through pine needles in thin, pale shafts that illuminate the dust of unpaved roads. Sandy Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the brush just a mile away, its banks thick with the tangled green growth of vines that reclaim the margins of the woods. Further out, the horizon is anchored by the distant silhouette of the Pontotoc Ridge, a faint, jagged line that marks the edge of the world, while the deeper stillness of Upper Sardis Wma waits seven miles to the north, offering a vast, untamed expanse of hardwood and scrub.

Tula carries the weight of a long agricultural legacy, where the economy has shifted from the labor of the soil to the slow, steady pulse of timber and small-scale trade. Life here moves in accordance with the seasons, dictated by the heat that rises in shimmering waves from the fields and the cooling relief that settles over Russell Lake three miles distant as the sun dips low. There is a singular, enduring character to the architecture and the people, a sense that the past is not a memory but a constant companion in the rusted metal of old machinery and the weathered wood of front porches. In the hush of the afternoon, when the wind dies down, the silence of the woods presses against the edge of the houses, reminding all who remain that the land is the primary architect of existence here.

About This Tula Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tula, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.232886, -89.362298. 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 Tula includes the ZIP code (38655, 38675), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Lafayette County (Oxford), and school district assignment (Lafayette 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.