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 | Coosa 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 | Rockford |
| School District | Barbour County School District |
Blue Springs remains a quiet witness to the slow, persistent work of water on the red-clay earth. It lies 14.8 miles west-southwest of Sylacauga, AL (from Sylacauga, AL: bearing 242°T), and is situated 16.1 miles east of Calera. Slaughter Creek carves a narrow, winding path near the settlement, its dark water moving with a rhythmic, subterranean intent that dictates the shape of the surrounding bottomland. To the north, the Katala Hills rise as a hazy, indigo suggestion against the horizon, anchoring the sky while the dense canopy of the Weogufka State Forest looms ten miles away. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, filtering through the longleaf pines to settle in the hollows of Sawyer Cove, where the air grows heavy and still. Residents move through the landscape with a recognition of the soil’s weight, tending to gardens and porches as the humidity of the inland afternoon gives way to the cooling shadows of the trees.
Blue Springs holds a modest, enduring history etched into the grain of its older timber structures and the endurance of its local trade. The economy has long drawn its vitality from the land, moving from early agrarian traditions to a quieter, modern persistence that values the autonomy of the woods and the nearby acreage. Not far from the main thoroughfares, the State-owned Submerged Lands provide a sanctuary for wildlife, maintaining a wild, unbothered character that resists the encroachment of busier, more frantic districts. Life in Blue Springs proceeds without the need for grand gestures, defined instead by the small, necessary commerce of daily survival and the seasonal shifts in the fields. It is a place where the proximity of Lay Lake offers a constant, vast presence of water, grounding the regional identity in the deep, silent aquifers that first drew people to this exact coordinate of the world.
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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 Coosa County (Rockford), 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. |