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Brookside Alabama Map

Explore Brookside, 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 Brookside, Alabama

How to Use This Brookside, Alabama Map

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

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	Brookside
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Jefferson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.634617
Longitude	-86.906314
Population	1,253
Density	76.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	35594, 35473, 35036, 35214
Area Code	256, 205
County Seat	Birmingham
School District	Jefferson County School District

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About Brookside, Alabama

Brookside is a locality in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,253. The population density is 76.6 people per km². Brookside is located at 33.6346°N, 86.9063°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Brookside is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35594, 35473, 35036.

Brookside emerges from the dense, humid embrace of the Alabama interior, defined by the persistent, winding movement of Fivemile Creek as it cuts through the iron-rich soil. It lies 6.2 miles west-southwest of Gardendale, AL (from Gardendale, AL: bearing 256°T), and is situated 4.8 miles north-northwest of Forestdale. The landscape here is defined by a rugged, terrestrial intimacy, where the elevation rises toward the modest, rounded silhouette of Crocker Hill and dips into the damp shadows of MacDonald Hollow. Greenway Park provides a quiet, green anchor for the local terrain, while the broader horizon is textured by the deep, persistent greens of the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest. Light here has a way of thickening in the late afternoon, turning the red-clay dust into a fine, copper-colored haze that hangs suspended over the low-lying bottomland hardwoods.

Brookside carries the weight of a history rooted in the extraction of earth’s minerals, a legacy that once dictated the pulse of the local economy and defined the rhythm of shifts in the dark. The labor of previous generations left behind a landscape marked by the remnants of industry, though the pace of life has since slowed, shifting toward a quiet, steady persistence that mirrors the flow of Fivemile Creek. Residents often look toward the nearby expanse of Bayview Lake when the heat of the humid afternoons demands a reprieve, finding in the water a stillness that the bustling world outside cannot reach. This corner of the state maintains a character shaped by its inland isolation, where the memory of coal and iron remains etched into the quiet streets, and the daily movement of the people is governed by the unchanging demands of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Greenway Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 298° NW
John Bensko Park (Local Park) — 1.0 mi, 279° W
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 3.1 mi, 264° W
Mount Olive Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 4.3 mi, 026° NE
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 5.2 mi, 227° SW
Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Theatre (Theatre) — 9.3 mi, 145° SE
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 144° SE
Legacy Arena (Stadium) — 9.4 mi, 145° SE
Steelworker (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 145° SE
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 145° SE
Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 10.1 mi, 146° SE
Heaviest Corner on Earth (Monument) — 10.1 mi, 145° SE
Rainbow LED Tunnel (Attraction) — 10.2 mi, 148° SE
Water Based (Public Artwork) — 10.2 mi, 119° SE
Blazer Circle (Viewpoint) — 11.0 mi, 148° SE
Alys Stephens Center (Theatre) — 11.1 mi, 149° SE
The Storyteller (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 146° SE
Turkey Creek Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 12.1 mi, 070° E
Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 13.4 mi, 120° SE
Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 150° SE
Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 13.5 mi, 151° SE
Birmingham Premiere LUX Ciné GSX & Pizza Pub (Cinema) — 14.1 mi, 163° S
Rickwood Caverns State Park (State Park) — 16.6 mi, 008° N
Trussville Entertainment District (Attraction) — 17.1 mi, 094° E
Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.0 mi, 190° S · 48 acres
Oak Grove Football Stadium (Stadium) — 18.4 mi, 232° SW
Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 21.6 mi, 155° SE
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 29.9 mi, 335° NW · 182k acres
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.7 mi, 194° S · 8,383 acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 47.8 mi, 206° SW · 395k acres

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