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Bristow Cove Alabama Map

Explore Bristow Cove, 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 Bristow Cove, Alabama

How to Use This Bristow Cove, Alabama Map

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

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	Bristow Cove
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Etowah County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	34.1092
Longitude	-86.241
Population	624
Density	22.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	35956
Area Code	334, 205
County Seat	Gadsden
School District	Etowah County School District

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About Bristow Cove, Alabama

Bristow Cove is a locality in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 624. The population density is 22.2 people per km². Bristow Cove is located at 34.1092°N, 86.2410°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 35956.

Bristow Cove exists as a quiet geological wrinkle where the earth gathers itself into the long, iron-rich spine of Red Mountain. It lies 7.6 miles southwest of Boaz, AL (from Boaz, AL: bearing 214°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west-southwest of Sardis City. The landscape here is defined by a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the limestone outcrops, where the light at dusk turns the dusty red-clay roads into ribbons of cooling copper. Only a mile away, the persistent trickle of Little Cove Creek carves a path through the dense, verdant undergrowth, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish grace that mirrors the slow pace of the surrounding woods. Beyond the immediate ridges, the terrain drops away into the broader basin of Bristow Cove, a place where the shadows lengthen early and the air stays thick with the scent of damp earth and pine needles.

History in this region is measured not by monuments, but by the stubborn endurance of those who first cleared the bottomland hardwoods to make way for small-scale agriculture. Life in Bristow Cove remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, far removed from the frantic pace of industrial centers, though the presence of State-owned Submerged Lands only four miles away hints at a commitment to preserving the wilder, untouched character of the Alabama interior. While the distant, thundering plummet of Little River Falls waits forty miles to the northeast, the local experience is defined by more modest waters, such as the quiet reaches of H Neely Henry Lake thirteen miles to the south. Residents navigate their days under a canopy of longleaf pine, finding a distinct, unassuming contentment in a geography that demands little more than a keen awareness of the changing seasons and the slow, steady shift of the sun across the ridges.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 3.6 mi, 260° W
Boaz Softball Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.3 mi, 027° NE
Boaz 9 Cinema (Cinema) — 7.7 mi, 038° NE
Bailey School (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 246° SW
Mountain Air Trampoline Park (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 016° N
SMPA Artist House (Museum) — 11.3 mi, 004° N
Albertville Recreation Center (Local Recreation) — 11.3 mi, 005° N
Noccalula Falls Petting Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 13.2 mi, 112° E
Main Battle Tank (Monument) — 13.4 mi, 112° E
Fat Man's Squeeze (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 111° E
Iroquois (Huey) Helicopter (Monument) — 13.4 mi, 112° E
Noccalula Falls Scenic View (Viewpoint) — 13.4 mi, 111° E
Lake Guntersville State Park (State Park) — 16.3 mi, 009° N
OBA Artwalk (Attraction) — 17.6 mi, 230° SW
Mabrey's Rock of Ages (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 005° N
Chad Hawkins Stadium (Stadium) — 23.5 mi, 065° NE
Walter Cotton Gin (Historic Ruins) — 24.9 mi, 272° W
Janney Furnace Civil War and Native American Museum and Interpritive Center (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 149° SE
Saint Joseph (Public Artwork) — 25.8 mi, 262° W
Buck's Pocket State Park (State Park) — 26.5 mi, 022° N
Bangor Cave (Historic Ruins) — 30.8 mi, 253° W
Carlton Ward Theater (Theatre) — 33.6 mi, 125° SE
Little River Canyon National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 33.6 mi, 068° E · 11k acres
Jackson County Waterfowl Area And Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 34.0 mi, 014° N · 16k acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 34.7 mi, 121° SE · 395k acres
Cullman County Museum (Museum) — 34.8 mi, 278° W
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.0 mi, 132° SE · 18k acres
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 38.4 mi, 118° SE · 8,947 acres
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.0 mi, 318° NW · 35k acres
Chattahoochee National Forest (National Forest) — 53.6 mi, 069° E · 752k acres

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