Explore Banks, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Banks, 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 Banks.
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 | Banks |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Pike County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.813264 |
| Longitude | -85.836434 |
| Population | 156 |
| Density | 30.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 35188, 36005 |
| Area Code | 205, 256, 334, 251 |
| County Seat | Troy |
| School District | Pike County School District |
Banks emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet collection of dwellings and open fields, defined by the slow, humid pulse of the inland South. It lies 7.5 miles east of Troy, AL (from Troy, AL: bearing 87°T), and is situated 6.8 miles north-northwest of Brundidge. The landscape surrounding Banks consists of expansive, sun-bleached pastures and thickets of longleaf pine that cast long, thin shadows across the dirt roads as the day wanes. Eight miles to the west, the subtle rise of Wolfpit Hill breaks the horizon, a solitary landmark in an otherwise level expanse of hardwood stands and agricultural plots. When the air settles, the humidity softens the edges of the horizon, blurring the line between the sky and the dense, green tree lines that border the local creek.
History in Banks is measured not in monuments, but in the enduring cycle of the harvest and the persistent rhythm of agrarian life. Pecan groves and small-scale farming define the local economy, maintaining a connection to the soil that has persisted through generations of change. The character of the place remains modest, favoring the steady work of the sun-drenched fields over the frantic pace of larger centers. Life here moves with the seasons, marked by the arrival of warm, heavy air and the quiet industry of those who have made this patch of Alabama their own, finding a particular beauty in the way the light catches the dust on a late summer afternoon.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Banks, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.813264, -85.836434. 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 Banks includes the ZIP code (35188, 36005), telephone area code (205, 256, 334, 251), county seat of Pike County (Troy), and school district assignment (Pike 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |