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Ashville Alabama Map

Explore Ashville, 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 Ashville, Alabama

How to Use This Ashville, Alabama Map

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

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.

CityAshville
StateAlabama (AL)
CountySt. Clair County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude33.835197
Longitude-86.270015
Population2,346
Density47.1 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code35953
Area Code334, 205
County SeatAshville
School DistrictSt. Clair County School District

About Ashville, Alabama

Ashville is a locality in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,346. The population density is 47.1 people per km². Ashville is located at 33.8352°N, 86.2700°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ashville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35953.

Ashville emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet confluence of woodland and open field, where the terrain rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells. It lies 14.7 miles west-southwest of Rainbow City, AL (from Rainbow City, AL: bearing 236°T), and is situated 18.8 miles southwest of Gadsden. The landscape is defined by the heavy presence of hardwoods and hardy pines that cling to the slopes, while the distant, jagged silhouette of Chandler Mountain marks the horizon like a silent sentinel. Near the outskirts, the low basin of Bucks Valley catches the golden, honeyed light of late afternoon, casting long shadows across the fields that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has dipped. A nearby stream winds through the undergrowth, its movement barely audible against the steady drone of cicadas that rise and fall in the humid air.

Ashville serves as a long-standing seat of administration, its history etched into the brickwork of older public buildings that anchor the center of the grid. The economy remains rooted in the practical labor of the surrounding land, where small-scale agriculture and regional commerce dictate the pace of the working day. Residents move with a deliberate, measured gravity, honoring a past that lingers in the architecture and the quietude of the residential streets. Even as modern industry touches the periphery, the character of Ashville remains tethered to the slow turn of the seasons, where the scent of pine needles and damp soil defines the sensory experience of a place that values its own steady, inland quiet.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Dry Creek Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 180° S
  • Chandler Mountain Macrosite (Conservation Area) — 6.3 mi, 007° N
  • State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 8.5 mi, 310° NW
  • Antioch Cemetary (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 316° NW
  • Champion Mines (Monument) — 13.0 mi, 304° NW
  • First Site - Oneonta Public Library (Monument) — 13.9 mi, 302° NW
  • OBA Artwalk (Attraction) — 14.1 mi, 303° NW
  • Janney Furnace (Attraction) — 14.6 mi, 101° E
  • Noccalula Falls Petting Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 19.8 mi, 045° NE
  • Fat Man's Squeeze (Attraction) — 20.0 mi, 045° NE
  • Noccalula Falls Scenic View (Viewpoint) — 20.1 mi, 045° NE
  • Nectar Falls (Attraction) — 22.2 mi, 297° NW
  • ACTA Theater (Theatre) — 24.0 mi, 234° SW
  • Coldwater Mountain (State Recreation Area) — 25.3 mi, 128° SE
  • Boaz 9 Cinema (Cinema) — 25.8 mi, 014° N
  • Trussville Childrens Theater (Theatre) — 26.8 mi, 233° SW
  • Greyhound Mural (Public Artwork) — 28.0 mi, 116° SE
  • Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 29.2 mi, 158° S · 395k acres
  • Bangor Cave (Historic Ruins) — 29.5 mi, 290° W
  • Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.8 mi, 112° E · 18k acres
  • AmStar Stadium Cinema 12 (Cinema) — 29.8 mi, 121° SE
  • Albertville Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 007° N
  • SMPA Artist House (Museum) — 30.3 mi, 005° N
  • Walter Cotton Gin (Historic Ruins) — 30.4 mi, 310° NW
  • Cheaha State Park (State Park) — 31.5 mi, 141° SE
  • Lake Guntersville State Park (State Park) — 35.2 mi, 007° N
  • Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 35.5 mi, 089° E · 8,947 acres
  • Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 36.7 mi, 141° SE · 7,400 acres
  • William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 51.2 mi, 288° W · 182k acres
  • Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 55.4 mi, 332° NW · 35k acres

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About This Ashville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ashville, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.835197, -86.270015. 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 Ashville includes the ZIP code (35953), telephone area code (334, 205), county seat of St. Clair County (Ashville), and school district assignment (St. Clair 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.