Bucks Alabama Map

About Bucks, Alabama

Bucks is a locality in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 22. The population density is 21.9 people per km². Bucks is located at 31.0105°N, 88.0242°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 36512.

Bucks emerges from the dense, humid embrace of longleaf pine forests and bottomland hardwoods that define this stretch of the Alabama interior. It lies 13.4 miles north-northeast of Saraland, AL (from Saraland, AL: bearing 12°T), and is situated 8.2 miles north of Creola. The Mobile River carves a dark, steady path less than a mile from the center of Bucks, its waters moving with a quiet gravity that draws the eye toward the horizon where Big Rock rises eight miles away to break the flat monotony of the timberlands. Sunlight filters through the heavy curtains of Spanish moss, turning the humid air into a thick, golden medium that seems to slow the very passage of time. Nearby, the stillness of Alligator Lake sits five miles distant, offering a mirror to the sky that remains undisturbed by the quickened pace of the modern world.

Industry in Bucks is inextricably linked to the land and the heavy, fertile soil that has supported generations of labor. State-owned Submerged Lands occupy the immediate periphery, preserving a natural wildness that stands in stark contrast to the heavy, iron-wrought infrastructure of the local chemical and manufacturing plants that sustain the regional economy. The history of Bucks is a quiet accumulation of red-clay roads and the enduring memory of those who worked the soil and the riverbank long before the current industrial landscape took shape. Life here moves with the deliberate, heavy pulse of the river, where the scent of pine needles and damp earth lingers in the air, grounding the identity of the people in the stubborn, unyielding character of the woods.

About This Bucks Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bucks, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.010458, -88.024166. 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 Bucks includes the ZIP code (36512), telephone area code (251), county seat of Mobile County (Mobile), and school district assignment (Mobile County School District).

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.