2018 Map of Delta City

About this map

Deer Creek and a network of bayous define this section of the Mississippi Delta along the border of Washington and Sharkey Counties. Small agricultural settlements like Delta City, Nitta Yuma, and Panther Burn are connected by a grid of rural roads and drainage channels including Murphy Bayou and Caney Bayou. The landscape's history is preserved in its local burial grounds, with Mount Zion Cem, Georgia Bend Cem, and Fish Lake Cem marking family and community sites across the bottomlands. The presence of Old Rail Rd near Delta City hints at the former transportation infrastructure that once moved cotton and timber through these fertile plains. To the south, the Big Sunflower River winds along the edge of the survey, where Harris Cem and Cameta sit near the river's edge.