Explore Blue Springs, 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 Blue Springs, 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 Blue Springs.
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 | Blue Springs |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Blount County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.663516 |
| Longitude | -85.503526 |
| Population | 84 |
| Density | 11.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 36467, 36017, 35553, 36374 |
| Area Code | 205, 334 |
| County Seat | Oneonta |
| School District | Barbour County School District |
Blue Springs emerges from the humid, red-clay earth as a quiet gathering of life where the landscape tilts toward the slow, persistent flow of Blue Springs Creek. It lies 17.5 miles east of Cullman, AL (from Cullman, AL: bearing 101°T), and is situated 13.5 miles south-southwest of Arab. The air here holds a heavy, lingering warmth, pressing against the stands of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwoods that define the horizon. Eight miles to the west, Tater Knob rises as a modest sentinel over the terrain, while five miles away, the low, fertile floor of Browns Valley offers a stark contrast to the surrounding ridges. The light at dusk settles over the fields in long, amber ribbons, turning the dust of the back roads into a shimmering, bronze haze that clings to the fences and the edges of the woods.
Economic life in Blue Springs remains tethered to the slow pulse of the land, drawing sustenance from the seasonal rhythm of peach and pecan harvests that have colored the local trade for generations. Residents move with a deliberate, measured gait, their lives shaped by the proximity of State-owned Submerged Lands, which serves as a quiet refuge for the creatures of the thicket and swamp. While the expansive waters of Guntersville Lake wait fourteen miles off, the daily existence of Blue Springs is defined more by the intimate, unseen intersections of history and the persistent, quiet growth of the forest. The legacy of the region’s past lingers in the shade of the trees, a memory that remains as constant and deep as the water moving through the creek bed.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Blue Springs, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.663516, -85.503526. 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 Blue Springs includes the ZIP code (36467, 36017, 35553), telephone area code (205, 334), county seat of Blount County (Oneonta), and school district assignment (Barbour 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. |