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Chunchula Alabama Map

Explore Chunchula, 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 Chunchula, Alabama

How to Use This Chunchula, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	30.92185
Longitude	-88.20056
Population	195
Density	41.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	36521
Area Code	251
County Seat	Mobile
School District	Mobile County School District

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About Chunchula, Alabama

Chunchula is a locality in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 195. The population density is 41.7 people per km². Chunchula is located at 30.9218°N, 88.2006°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 36521.

Chunchula emerges from the dense, humid embrace of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood as a quiet enclave defined by the persistent, dark passage of Chickasaw Creek. It lies 10.4 miles northwest of Saraland, AL (from Saraland, AL: bearing 312°T), and is situated 9.8 miles west-northwest of Satsuma. The landscape here is characterized by the slow, rhythmic accumulation of red clay and the heavy, verdant canopy that obscures the horizon, broken only by the occasional clearing where the afternoon light pools in thick, golden shafts. In the stillness of the afternoon, the moisture in the air seems to hold the scent of damp earth and decaying leaves, a weight that settles over the State-owned Submerged Lands that border the immediate vicinity. Though the horizon remains flat and dense with vegetation, the distant, unseen silhouette of Big Rock suggests a ruggedness that never quite reaches the flat, shaded floor of the local woods.

History in Chunchula is written in the persistence of its back roads, which wind through remnants of a rural economy that once leaned heavily on the timber and agricultural yields of the deep interior. The pulse of life here is governed by the gradual transition of seasons, where the harvest of pecans and the ripening of fruit define the cycle of the year far more than the clocks on the wall. While the proximity of Big Creek Lake provides a necessary catchment for the regional rainfall, the daily existence of those who reside here remains focused on the small, deliberate tasks of property maintenance and the quiet maintenance of community ties. It is a place where the memory of the past is not displayed in monuments, but carried in the way the architecture clings to the ground, humbled by the immense, overarching presence of the trees.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 0.4 mi, 107° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.1 mi, 149° SE
Satsuma Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 121° SE
Mobile-Tensaw Delta Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.7 mi, 116° SE
Chickasabogue Park (Local Park) — 10.9 mi, 151° SE
W. L. Holland Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.0 mi, 130° SE
Mill Creek Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 11.6 mi, 328° NW
Frank W. and Rob M. Boykin Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 13.9 mi, 009° N
Old Steam Engine (Monument) — 14.8 mi, 171° S
Saint Mary (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 154° SE
SouthPaw (Public Artwork) — 15.8 mi, 175° S
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ms (National Wildlife Refuge) — 18.2 mi, 260° W · 20k acres
Sweet Dreams Haunted Attraction (Attraction) — 18.3 mi, 152° SE
Oakleigh (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 153° SE
Phoenix Fire Museum (Museum) — 18.7 mi, 150° SE
Bell UH-1 (Attraction) — 19.8 mi, 147° SE
Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard (Attraction) — 19.8 mi, 147° SE
Cg-41364 (Attraction) — 19.8 mi, 147° SE
Tensaw River Overlook (Viewpoint) — 20.3 mi, 127° SE
De Soto National Forest (National Forest) — 24.4 mi, 282° W · 532k acres
Wiggins Stadium (Stadium) — 25.3 mi, 024° NE
Greene County Museum (Museum) — 26.2 mi, 308° NW
Fort Mims (Historic Castle / Fort) — 27.9 mi, 050° NE
Island Fire Glass Art Gallery and Espresso Bar (Gallery) — 31.5 mi, 171° S
Fairhope Museum of History (Museum) — 32.7 mi, 147° SE
Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.9 mi, 200° S · 31k acres
Leaf Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 34.4 mi, 280° W · 993 acres
Wind Creek Cinema (Cinema) — 44.4 mi, 074° E
Old Saint Stephens Archaeological Site (Historic Ruins) — 44.8 mi, 012° N
Gulf Islands National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 49.5 mi, 193° S · 213k acres

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