Creola Alabama Map

About Creola, Alabama

Creola is a locality in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,936. The population density is 47.7 people per km². Creola is located at 30.8742°N, 88.0095°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Creola is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36525.

Creola rises from the dense, humid interior where the dark, slow-moving currents of Gunnison Creek cut through a landscape of heavy clay and towering longleaf pines. It lies 5.2 miles north-northeast of Saraland, AL (from Saraland, AL: bearing 20°T), and is situated 2.8 miles north-northeast of Satsuma. The land around Creola retains a quiet, persistent moisture, feeding the bottomland hardwoods that define the edges of the State-owned Submerged Lands. Sunlight here filters through layers of Spanish moss, casting long, fractured shadows across the red-clay back roads that wind toward the horizon. Five miles away, the stillness of Negro Lake offers a mirror to the sky, while the distant, silent presence of Stony Hill marks the edge of a world far removed from the immediate, thick vegetation of the low-lying plains.

Creola maintains an identity forged in the quiet labor of the timber and industrial sectors that have long occupied the surrounding flatlands. The rhythm of life in Creola is dictated by the steady, persistent work of those who navigate the transition between the dense, inland forests and the regional trade corridors. History here is felt in the weight of the air and the endurance of the local families who have occupied these woods for generations, working the soil and managing the timber tracts that define the economy. Though the influence of the wider region’s past is never entirely absent, the daily focus remains on the immediate tasks of the present, where the afternoon heat settles over the landscape with a heavy, honest permanence.

About This Creola Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Creola, Alabama. Coordinates: 30.874249, -88.009536. 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 Creola includes the ZIP code (36525), 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.