Tutwiler Mississippi Map

About Tutwiler, Mississippi

Tutwiler is a locality in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,476. The population density is 345.2 people per km². Tutwiler is located at 34.0148°N, 90.4318°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tutwiler is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 38963.

Tutwiler anchors itself to the flat, expansive reach of the Mississippi Delta, where the horizon pulls tight against a sky that seems to possess more weight than the earth itself. It lies 15.1 miles south-southeast of Clarksdale, MS (from Clarksdale, MS: bearing 148°T), and is situated 15.2 miles north-northeast of Drew. The land here is a monochromatic expanse of alluvial soil, broken only by the thin, dark veins of drainage ditches and the occasional stand of timber that marks the path of Watson Bayou just two miles from the center of the grid. During the humid transitions of dusk, the light loses its harshness, casting a pale, bruised violet across the fields that renders the distant tree lines into mere silhouettes. Six miles away, the acreage managed by the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms offers a quiet sanctuary for migratory birds, a stark contrast to the relentless, industrial geometry of the surrounding cotton and soybean rows that define the rhythm of the seasons.

Tutwiler carries the quiet gravity of a place where history is measured in the slow accumulation of dust and the persistence of the blues. The economy remains tethered to the cyclical demands of agriculture, a reality that dictates the pace of life as surely as the seasonal turning of the irrigation pivots. Beyond the immediate fields, the landscape opens toward the wider basin, where the water table remains high and the presence of Buzzard Bayou Lake, ten miles out, serves as a reminder of the shifting, saturated nature of this geography. There is a particular, unadorned beauty in the way the local architecture—low-slung, utilitarian, and worn by the sun—sits against the vastness of the plains. Life here moves with a deliberate, singular intensity, rooted in the deep, heavy loam that has sustained the local spirit through generations of labor and song.

About This Tutwiler Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tutwiler, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.014834, -90.43176. 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 Tutwiler includes the ZIP code (38963), telephone area code (228), county seat of Tallahatchie County (Charleston), and school district assignment (West Tallahatchie School).

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.