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Belle Fontaine Alabama Map

Explore Belle Fontaine, 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 Belle Fontaine, Alabama

How to Use This Belle Fontaine, Alabama Map

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

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	Belle Fontaine
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Mobile County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	30.492
Longitude	-88.1131
Population	613
Density	152.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	36582
Area Code	251
County Seat	Mobile
School District	Mobile County School District

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About Belle Fontaine, Alabama

Belle Fontaine is a locality in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 613. The population density is 152.4 people per km². Belle Fontaine is located at 30.4920°N, 88.1131°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 36582.

Belle Fontaine exists as a quiet reach of land where the humid air hangs heavy with the scent of salt and the damp, dark earth of bottomland hardwood forests. It lies 7.6 miles south-southeast of Tillmans Corner, AL (from Tillmans Corner, AL: bearing 153°T), and is situated 5.3 miles southeast of Theodore. The landscape here is defined by a low, persistent horizon, where the shifting light of dusk turns the sky a bruised violet and makes the long needles of the pines appear like charcoal sketches against the fading sun. To the north, the terrain rises slightly toward the distant, unseen reaches of Tatumville Gully, while the proximity to the coast manifests in the brackish, tidal breath that moves inland, cooling the humid afternoons. A short distance away, the quiet waters of Goat Island break the expanse of the sound, standing as a solitary sentinel in the landscape while the Hollingers Island Channel serves as the primary artery for the slow, rhythmic movement of water toward the open sea.

Belle Fontaine maintains a character shaped by the slow, deliberate pace of those who live between the deep woods and the tide. The local economy and daily life remain anchored to the land and the surrounding waters, far removed from the more hurried tempo of the distant, metal-plated history of the USS Battleship Alabama Memorial Park. Traditions here are quiet, carried in the way the morning fog clings to the red-clay roads and how the long-standing families manage the small-scale cultivation that has defined this region for generations. Despite the encroaching modern world, Belle Fontaine retains a sense of isolation, a place where the history of the soil is more palpable than the passage of time itself, and the primary sound remains the soft, persistent sigh of wind moving through the coastal canopy.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 353° N
Island Fire Glass Art Gallery and Espresso Bar (Gallery) — 1.4 mi, 180° S
Theodore Park (Local Recreation) — 5.8 mi, 314° NW
Grand Bay Savanna Community Hunting Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.4 mi, 241° SW
The Heron Bay Wetlands Tract (State Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 183° S
Fairhope Museum of History (Museum) — 12.7 mi, 080° E
Schoolchildren Metal Art (Public Artwork) — 12.8 mi, 078° E
Oakleigh (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 013° N
Sweet Dreams Haunted Attraction (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 015° N
Phoenix Fire Museum (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 017° N
PB MK3 Swift Boat (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 024° NE
Piasecki H-21 (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 023° NE
Cg-41364 (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 023° NE
The Fallen Guardians Monument (Monument) — 14.3 mi, 024° NE
U.S. Coast Guard Monument (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 018° N
Korean War (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 023° NE
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 14.4 mi, 182° S · 20k acres
Meaher State Park (State Park) — 14.9 mi, 039° NE
Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.7 mi, 252° W · 31k acres
Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 16.5 mi, 107° E
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 17.5 mi, 256° W
Tensaw River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 20.8 mi, 032° NE
Gulf Islands National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 24.7 mi, 221° SW · 213k acres
John Snook Telephone Museum (Museum) — 25.8 mi, 099° E
Gulf Islands Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 26.0 mi, 222° SW · 3,896 acres
De Soto National Forest (National Forest) — 37.6 mi, 286° W · 532k acres
Biloxi Little Theater (Theatre) — 46.1 mi, 262° W
Saenger Theater for the Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 46.7 mi, 262° W
Fort McRee (Historic Ruins) — 48.8 mi, 103° E
Fort Mims (Historic Castle / Fort) — 50.3 mi, 019° N

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