Cuba Alabama Map

About Cuba, Alabama

Cuba is a locality in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 306. The population density is 29.1 people per km². Cuba is located at 32.4407°N, 88.3748°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Cuba is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36907.

Cuba emerges from the red-clay expanse of the Alabama interior, defined by the quiet accumulation of silt and the patient growth of longleaf pines. It lies 19.6 miles east-northeast of Meridian, MS (from Meridian, MS: bearing 77°T), and is situated 6.2 miles southwest of York. Alamuchee Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the heavy earth just a mile from the center, its banks thick with bottomland hardwoods that hold the humidity in a stagnant, emerald grip. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land stretches into a flat, sun-bleached monotony where the light at dusk turns the dust into a fine, copper powder. On the distant horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Hog Wallow Ridge breaks the sky, a reminder of the more rugged terrain that lies twenty miles to the north. Lake Carolyn remains a singular, glassy eye in this landscape, providing a three-mile buffer of stillness against the relentless heat of the afternoon.

Cuba functions as a deliberate pause in the transit of heavy freight and regional commerce, its economy tied to the enduring rhythm of the timber industry and the sparse, methodical cultivation of the surrounding acreage. The history here is written in the utilitarian architecture of the rail lines and the faded storefronts that hold the weight of decades of transition. Eight miles out, the State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a stretch of terrain that feels largely indifferent to the town’s human concerns, acting as a reminder of the wilder, unmanaged state of the Alabama interior. Life in Cuba moves with a heavy, deliberate gravity, defined by the persistent hum of trucks on the highway and the singular, quiet dignity of a place that long ago reconciled itself to the solitude of the inland plain.

About This Cuba Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Cuba, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.440733, -88.374798. 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 Cuba includes the ZIP code (36907), telephone area code (205, 251, 256, 334, 938), county seat of Sumter County (Livingston), and school district assignment (Sumter 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.