Union County, Mississippi Map
Explore Union County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 4 cities and towns in Union County below.
Interactive Map of Union County, Mississippi
| County | Union |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | New Albany |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 34.496629 |
| Longitude | -88.986105 |
| Cities & Towns | 4 |
| Area Codes | 601, 662, 769 |
About Union County, Mississippi
Union County occupies a transition zone where the coastal plain begins to yield to the stubborn, broken ridges of the northern interior. The Tallahatchie River bisects this landscape, its waters sluggish and stained with the silt of eroding clay banks that define the northern reaches of the watershed. Here, the horizon is rarely flat; instead, it is composed of sudden, pleated rises and sharp, wooded hollows that hold the morning mist long after the sun has cleared the treeline. The soil carries a distinct reddish hue, a heavy, iron-rich fiber that clings to the boots of those who work it, and in the late autumn, the light turns a thin, bruised violet as it filters through the dense thickets of pine and scrub oak that dominate the uncultivated segments of the terrain.
Union County emerged from the remnants of older territorial divisions, taking shape as the state sought to organize its northern frontiers during the middle of the nineteenth century. The administrative center came to exist at a crossroads where the local topography allowed for the convergence of early wagon trails, providing a central point for a population that had migrated from the older, exhausted lands of the eastern seaboard. This legislative act of founding served to formalize a community that was already tethered to the land by subsistence farming and the slow, arduous clearing of dense timber. Over the years, the courthouse square became the focal point for the social life of the county, a place where the architecture of the early twentieth century reflects a sober, brick-and-mortar ambition that sought to impose a sense of order upon a frontier that had only recently been brought under the governance of the state.
Industry and agriculture now share the space that was once reserved solely for the plow, with manufacturing plants operating in the quiet periphery of the main thoroughfares, humming with a mechanical persistence that defines the modern workday. The air here often carries the scent of pine resin mixed with the metallic tang of heavy machinery, and the residents move through their days with a deliberate focus that seems to ignore the encroaching restlessness of the wider world. Landmarks such as the expansive state park, with its lake fed by the intricate drainage of the local hills, offer a reprieve where the water mirrors the sky with a glassy, dark intensity. In the quiet hours of the afternoon, when the shadows stretch across the storefronts and the wind catches the dry leaves in the gutters, the county reveals a persistent, unadorned endurance, anchored firmly to the clay and the specific, stubborn character of its people.
Cities and Towns in Union County
About This Union County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Union County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 4 cities and towns. The county seat is New Albany. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
