Wade Mississippi Map

About Wade, Mississippi

Wade is a locality in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. It is a small community with a population of 996. The population density is 62.4 people per km². Wade is located at 30.6297°N, 88.5558°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 39562.

Wade unfurls across a landscape of quiet, low-lying woodland where the Kenedy Branch traces a slow, meandering path through the earth. It lies 16.1 miles north of Moss Point, MS (from Moss Point, MS: bearing 353°T), and is situated 9.9 miles northeast of Vancleave. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the pines and hardwoods, creating a dense canopy that filters the afternoon sun into long, amber shafts. Beyond the immediate tree line, the terrain shifts into open, weathered plains that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Easen Hill, rising six miles away like a soft, bruised thumb against the horizon. Two miles from the center, the water of Parkers Lake sits perfectly motionless, a dark mirror reflecting the shifting clouds and the persistent, creeping vines that define the wilder edges of the property.

Wade preserves a legacy of slow-turning industry and land-based labor that has defined the inhabitants for generations. The economy remains tethered to the timber and soil, with the daily pulse of the locality dictated by the steady clearing of acreage and the quiet maintenance of rural homesteads. Four miles away, Private serves as the primary sanctuary for the local flora and fauna, a protected expanse that keeps the encroaching modern world at a respectful distance. Life in Wade moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, where the history of the families is written in the fences they mend and the long, thin roads that lead toward The Neck. It is a place that demands little from the traveler, offering instead the simple, honest weight of a landscape that has remained largely unchanged by the clamor of the outside world.

About This Wade Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wade, Mississippi. Coordinates: 30.629681, -88.555842. 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 Wade includes the ZIP code (39562), telephone area code (228), county seat of Jackson County (Pascagoula), and school district assignment (Jackson 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.