Explore Walls, Mississippi, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Walls, Mississippi. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Mississippi or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Walls.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Walls |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | DeSoto County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.925861 |
| Longitude | -90.167744 |
| Population | 1,351 |
| Density | 44.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 38680, 38686, 38641 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| County Seat | Hernando |
| School District | DeSoto County School District |
Walls rises from the flat, alluvial expanse of the Mississippi Delta, where the horizon stretches wide and the light at dusk settles in heavy, golden layers over the fields. It lies 6.6 miles west of Horn Lake, MS (from Horn Lake, MS: bearing 272°T), and is situated 8.2 miles west-southwest of Southaven. The air here holds a humid stillness, grounding the landscape in a rhythmic cycle of planting and harvest that defines the slow breathing of the earth. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Horn Lake mirror the vast sky, while the low banks of Johnson Creek trace a meandering path through the surrounding silt and clay. Far to the south, the faint, hazy suggestion of Pecan Ridge occasionally breaks the monotony of the plain, anchoring the view and reminding the observer of the tectonic shifts that shaped this fertile basin.
Walls grew from the quiet commerce of the railroad and the enduring labor of the cotton fields, carrying a legacy of agricultural industry that persists in the modern lines of its modest infrastructure. While the distant shadows of Josie Harry Towhead mark the deeper, wetter reaches of the terrain, the immediate life of the locale centers on the steady, daily motions of its residents who gather for recreation at 301 Ball Park. The character of Walls remains tied to this resilience, reflecting a history where the soil dictates the pace of existence and the depth of the local roots. It is a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the hum of machinery or the distant movement of a train, maintaining a sense of purpose that is as unadorned and honest as the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Walls, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.925861, -90.167744. 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 Walls includes the ZIP code (38680, 38686, 38641), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of DeSoto County (Hernando), and school district assignment (DeSoto County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |