Explore White Oak, 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 White Oak, 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 White Oak.
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 | White Oak |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County | Tunica County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.643868 |
| Longitude | -90.349435 |
| Population | 595 |
| Density | 497.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 38621, 39111, 38676 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| County Seat | Tunica |
| School District | Tunica County School District |
White Oak occupies a low-slung expanse where the horizon stretches flat and wide, defined by the persistent, dark passage of White Oak Bayou as it carves a slow path through the silt. It lies 23.9 miles west-southwest of Hernando, MS (from Hernando, MS: bearing 239°T), and is situated 15.7 miles east-northeast of Helena-West Helena. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the skin, carrying the scent of damp earth and crushed clover from the fields that roll toward the distant silhouette of Skidmore Ridge. Two miles away, the quiet surface of Beaverdam Lake mirrors the shifting charcoal clouds, providing a still counterpoint to the sluggish, mud-thick current of the bayou. Beyond the immediate fields, the landscape thickens into the dense, shadowed timber of Saint Francis National Forest, while three miles in the opposite direction, the untamed expanse of Unknown Park offers a sanctuary for the local fauna that move through the tall, sun-bleached grasses.
White Oak grew from the necessity of the soil, a place where the economy remains tethered to the rhythm of planting and harvest seasons that dictate the pace of every porch-front conversation. Generations have worked these fields, their lives marked by the slow accumulation of agricultural cycles and the occasional quiet shift of the regional timber trade. There is a particular, amber quality to the light at dusk that turns the weathered wood of old barns to a deep, resonant bronze, highlighting the resilience of a population that favors endurance over speed. In the evenings, the distant, muffled hum of machinery serves as a reminder of the industry that sustains the locality, a steady pulse that echoes the quiet persistence of the bayou itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of White Oak, Mississippi. Coordinates: 34.643868, -90.349435. 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 White Oak includes the ZIP code (38621, 39111, 38676), telephone area code (601, 769), county seat of Tunica County (Tunica), and school district assignment (Tunica 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. |