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Daviston Alabama Map

Explore Daviston, 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 Daviston, Alabama

How to Use This Daviston, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	33.052899
Longitude	-85.639678
Population	174
Density	7.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	36256
Area Code	334
County Seat	Dadeville
School District	Tallapoosa County School District

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About Daviston, Alabama

Daviston is a locality in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 174. The population density is 7.4 people per km². Daviston is located at 33.0529°N, 85.6397°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Daviston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36256.

Daviston occupies a quiet expanse of red-clay earth where the land hums with the slow, persistent growth of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood. It lies 19.7 miles east-northeast of Alexander City, AL (from Alexander City, AL: bearing 67°T), and is situated 16.9 miles west-southwest of Roanoke. Mill Creek carves a narrow, winding path near the center of the landscape, its dark waters reflecting the heavy, humid air that settles over the fields during the long afternoons. To the northwest, the distant silhouette of Evan Ridge rises against the horizon, providing a steady, immovable boundary to the view. Only two miles away, Monaghan Lake offers a glassy stillness, its surface a mirror for the shifting clouds that drift over the State-owned Submerged Lands. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, casting long shadows across the fallow ground and turning the pine needles into needles of copper wire.

Daviston preserves the steady, patient rhythm of a place defined by its agriculture and the quiet endurance of its people. The local economy remains anchored to the soil, drawing sustenance from the surrounding pecan orchards and the labor of those who work the timber. History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the way the roadbeds follow the natural contours of the terrain and the persistent memory of the families who first cleared the brush. Life moves with an internal logic dictated by the seasons, where the arrival of the harvest brings a familiar intensity to the quietude. Even as the modern world pulls at the edges, the character of the place remains fixed, tethered to the slow movement of the creek and the deep, rich color of the earth that sustains it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 2.3 mi, 137° SE
Clay County Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 19.2 mi, 342° N
Bell UH-1 (Attraction) — 19.2 mi, 342° N
Catie Radney's Studio (Arts Centre) — 19.7 mi, 248° W
Wind Creek State Park (State Park) — 20.5 mi, 232° SW
Airplane Monument (Monument) — 21.4 mi, 246° SW
Chambers County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 22.0 mi, 134° SE
West Point Lake (Recreation Area) — 23.9 mi, 084° E
West Point Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 23.9 mi, 084° E
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 24.3 mi, 334° NW · 395k acres
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 24.4 mi, 333° NW · 7,400 acres
Cheaha State Park (State Park) — 28.9 mi, 339° N
Valley Monument Co. (Monument) — 29.0 mi, 118° SE
Yates Lake West Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 30.9 mi, 210° SW
Restaurant Overlook (Viewpoint) — 31.0 mi, 342° N
Highest Point in Alabama (Attraction) — 31.4 mi, 342° N
Yellow Umbrella (Public Artwork) — 31.7 mi, 152° SE
University Seal (Attraction) — 32.2 mi, 164° S
Civil War Cannon Lathe (Attraction) — 32.3 mi, 164° S
Opelika Community Theatre (Theatre) — 32.5 mi, 149° SE
Callaway Auditorium (Theatre) — 34.5 mi, 093° E
Heard County Historical Center and Museum (Museum) — 35.0 mi, 063° NE
Tuskegee National Forest (National Forest) — 37.5 mi, 177° S · 11k acres
AmStar Stadium Cinema 12 (Cinema) — 40.2 mi, 345° N
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.2 mi, 352° N · 18k acres
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site (Museum) — 43.3 mi, 185° S
Home (Historic Castle / Fort) — 46.3 mi, 145° SE
Chipeley Historical Center (Museum) — 47.3 mi, 106° E
Kelly Fitzgerald Art Museum (Museum) — 48.3 mi, 223° SW
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 53.4 mi, 000° N · 8,947 acres

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