Vaiden Mississippi Map

About Vaiden, Mississippi

Vaiden is a locality in Carroll County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 907. The population density is 163.3 people per km². Vaiden is located at 33.3325°N, 89.7526°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Vaiden is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 39176.

Vaiden occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of red clay hills and the heavy, humid stillness that settles over the Mississippi interior. It lies 28.3 miles east-southeast of Greenwood, MS (from Greenwood, MS: bearing 117°T), and is situated 10.4 miles south of Winona. The terrain surrounding Vaiden rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of earth, blanketed by dense thickets of pine and oak that hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. A mile to the east, Hays Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish grace that dictates the drainage of the nearby fields. Twelve miles to the west, the quiet expanse of Sanders Lake reflects the shifting gray of the sky, while the distant, singular silhouette of Arnold Mountain provides a faint, jagged anchor to an otherwise hazy horizon. Beyond the reach of the immediate woods, the land flattens into the fertile, sun-drenched stretches of agriculture that have long dictated the pace of life here.

Vaiden emerged from the nineteenth-century expansion of the railway, growing around the steel arteries that once promised a rapid connection to the wider world. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, with the memory of cotton and timber still etched into the storefronts that face the main thoroughfare. Time in Vaiden moves with an intentional weight, punctuated by the seasonal labor of the fields and the slow, shifting shadows cast by the kudzu that climbs the weathered brick of older structures. Ten miles away, the quiet grounds of Unknown Park offer a space where the forest reclaims the edges of human activity, serving as a reminder of the wilder landscape that persists just beyond the town limits. Life here is defined by a deep, quiet familiarity, where the air is thick with the scent of damp earth and the history of those who have worked this soil for generations remains a quiet, constant presence in the daily routine.

About This Vaiden Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Vaiden, Mississippi. Coordinates: 33.332523, -89.752603. 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 Vaiden includes the ZIP code (39176), telephone area code (601), county seat of Carroll County (Carrollton), and school district assignment (Carroll 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.