Rising Sun, Mississippi

Current Weather

Rising Sun is located in Leflore County.

Rising Sun is 40 feet [12.19 m] above sea level.^<1>

Time Zone: Rising Sun lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Rising Sun can be found in:

While we we don't have population counts for Rising Sun, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for Rising Sun).

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

	Community	Direction	Distance<2>	2008<3> Population	Change Since 2000
	Carrollton	E	16 mi [25.75 km]	394	3.43% decrease
	Cruger	S	9 mi [14.48 km]	428	4.68% decrease
	Greenwood	N	3 mi [4.83 km]	16,084	12.71% decrease
	Itta Bena	NW	7 mi [11.27 km]	1,875	15.08% decrease
	Moorhead	W	17 mi [27.36 km]	2,342	8.98% decrease
	North Carrollton	E	17 mi [27.36 km]	464	7.01% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Rising Sun.

The Commemorative Quarter for Mississippi<4>

Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Rising Sun. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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