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Adamsville Alabama Map

Explore Adamsville, Alabama, 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.

Interactive Map of Adamsville, Alabama

How to Use This Adamsville, Alabama Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Adamsville, Alabama. 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 Alabama 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 Adamsville.

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	Adamsville
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Jefferson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.602315
Longitude	-86.971527
Population	4,366
Density	64.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	35005, 35224
Area Code	205, 256
County Seat	Birmingham
School District	Jefferson County School District

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About Adamsville, Alabama

Adamsville is a locality in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,366. The population density is 64.3 people per km². Adamsville is located at 33.6023°N, 86.9715°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Adamsville is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35005, 35224.

Adamsville marks the transition where the jagged, iron-rich earth of the region begins to mellow into the quiet, humid sprawl of the Alabama interior. It lies 9.2 miles west-southwest of Gardendale, AL (from Gardendale, AL: bearing 244°T), and is situated 4.0 miles west-northwest of Forestdale. The landscape surrounding Adamsville is defined by the steady, unpretentious rise of the terrain, where the silhouette of Cat Mountain looms five miles to the west like a dormant sentinel. Here, the red clay soil clings to the roots of dense woodland, particularly toward the three-mile mark where the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest maintains a quiet, scientific vigil over the timber. Cane Creek cuts a narrow, winding artery through the terrain just a mile away, its banks often choked with the thick, tangled greenery of the bottomlands, while the waters of Bayview Lake sit two miles distant, holding the sky in a still, dark mirror. At the center of the local geography, Spring St Park offers a modest clearing where the air feels heavy with the scent of damp earth and coming rain, a place where the light at dusk turns the pine needles into shards of burnished copper.

Adamsville emerged from the industrious grit of the nineteenth century, built upon the hard labor of coal mining and the steady rhythm of the rail lines that once dictated the pulse of the local economy. The legacy of those extractive industries remains etched into the character of the people, who have navigated the shift from heavy mineral extraction to the varied commerce of a modern, inland settlement. Life in Adamsville moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the memory of a rugged past and the cooling shadows cast by the nearby slopes of Cougar Hollow. On summer afternoons, the heat settles over the red-clay back roads, and the atmosphere becomes thick with the hum of insects and the slow, heavy gravity of the interior South. It is a place where the history of the ground is never truly buried, but instead persists in the architecture and the quiet, persistent resilience of those who call these wooded hills their home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Adams Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 225° SW
Spring St Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 120° SE
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 182° S
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 353° N
Pleasant Grove Athletic Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.1 mi, 184° S
Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Theatre (Theatre) — 10.6 mi, 120° SE
Legacy Arena (Stadium) — 10.6 mi, 121° SE
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 10.7 mi, 120° SE
Steelworker (Monument) — 10.8 mi, 121° SE
Rainbow LED Tunnel (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 125° SE
Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 11.2 mi, 123° SE
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 11.2 mi, 122° SE
Heaviest Corner on Earth (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 122° SE
Magic City Sign (Public Artwork) — 11.5 mi, 123° SE
Alys Stephens Center (Theatre) — 11.9 mi, 128° SE
Grace's Gap Overlook (Viewpoint) — 12.0 mi, 143° SE
The Storyteller (Monument) — 12.3 mi, 125° SE
Mulberry Fork Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 13.1 mi, 266° W
Birmingham Premiere LUX Ciné GSX & Pizza Pub (Cinema) — 13.7 mi, 145° SE
Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 132° SE
Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 14.1 mi, 133° SE
Oak Grove Football Stadium (Stadium) — 14.1 mi, 229° SW
Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.6 mi, 178° S · 48 acres
Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 16.0 mi, 106° E
Rickwood Caverns State Park (State Park) — 19.6 mi, 018° N
Trussville Entertainment District (Attraction) — 20.9 mi, 087° E
Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 21.8 mi, 149° SE
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 30.6 mi, 343° N · 182k acres
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.8 mi, 189° S · 8,383 acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 44.2 mi, 203° SW · 395k acres

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