Yalobusha County, Mississippi Map
Explore Yalobusha County, Mississippi with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 3 cities and towns in Yalobusha County below.
Interactive Map of Yalobusha County, Mississippi
| County | Yalobusha |
| State | Mississippi (MS) |
| County Seat | Water Valley |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 34.037704 |
| Longitude | -89.734623 |
| Cities & Towns | 3 |
| Area Codes | 228 |
About Yalobusha County, Mississippi
Yalobusha County occupies a transitional space where the alluvial silt of the western plains yields to the stubborn, iron-rich clay of the North Central Hills. The landscape is defined by the drainage of its namesake river, which carves a persistent path through dense stands of loblolly pine and hardwoods that hold the moisture of the humid air in their heavy canopy. During the late afternoon, the light here takes on a bruised, amber quality, pressing down against the low-lying bottomlands and reflecting off the dark, slow-moving water that defines the local geography. To the east, the terrain tilts upward into a series of broken ridges and sharp ravines, creating a physical barrier that has long isolated the inhabitants from the flatter, more industrial stretches of the state.
Yalobusha County emerged from the cession of ancestral lands in the early nineteenth century, drawing a diverse influx of settlers who moved into the interior to clear the thick timber and establish small-scale agricultural plots. The administrative center was established as a compromise between competing interests in the north and south, eventually settling into a quiet gravity centered around a courthouse square that serves as a physical anchor for the surrounding district. The early architecture reflects this period of rapid, often brutal transformation, utilizing local kiln-fired brick that has darkened to a deep, earthy red over the decades. These older structures hold the chill of the earth in their foundation stones, remaining cool even when the summer sun turns the streets into shimmering, heat-distorted corridors of dust and stillness.
Economic life here remains tethered to the harvest of the soil and the processing of timber, though the pace of labor is dictated more by the seasonal shift of the humidity than by the rigid demands of the clock. Men and women move with a deliberate economy of motion, their daily routines punctuated by the sound of trucks hauling logs along narrow roads that snake through the pine barrens. The character of the county is found in the quiet persistence of these trades and the way the air smells of crushed needles and wet earth after a sudden, sharp rain. In the evenings, the porch lights flicker to life against a landscape that feels vast and indifferent, leaving the residents to navigate a world where the primary landmarks are the deep, tangled woods and the long, straight stretches of road that vanish into the deepening gray of the horizon.
Cities and Towns in Yalobusha County
About This Yalobusha County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Yalobusha County, Mississippi alongside links to detailed street maps for 3 cities and towns. The county seat is Water Valley. 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 |
