Explore Elba, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Elba, 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 Elba.
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 | Elba |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Coffee County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.414611 |
| Longitude | -86.067724 |
| Population | 3,508 |
| Density | 88.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 36323 |
| Area Code | 334 |
| County Seat | Elba |
| School District | Elba City School District |
Elba occupies a low-lying basin where the persistent, winding course of the Pea River defines the horizon as much as the timbered edges of the surrounding woodland. It lies 14.3 miles west-northwest of Enterprise, AL (from Enterprise, AL: bearing 299°T), and is situated 14.3 miles northeast of Opp. The landscape shifts from the flat, moisture-heavy bottomlands near the riverbed toward the subtle, rising ridges that eventually climb toward the distant shadow of Coston Hill. In the late afternoon, the light here thickens, turning a heavy, golden amber that catches on the Spanish moss clinging to the hardwood trees, casting long, fractured shadows across the red-clay soil. Even in the stillness, the humidity remains a physical weight, a reminder that the land is shaped by cycles of rising water and the slow, steady growth of pines that define the regional character far more than any distant, unseen topography.
Elba has long maintained a rhythm dictated by the land, balancing an economy rooted in agricultural tradition with the quiet endurance of a place that understands the vulnerability of its own geography. Residents move with a deliberate, measured pace, cognizant of the State-owned Submerged Lands that wrap around the low points of the terrain, acting as a natural sentinel against the encroachment of the elements. While the commerce of the present day hums with the practical needs of the people, the memory of the past—of floods survived and seasons turned—remains etched into the very architecture of the storefronts and the quietude of the residential streets. Those who seek respite find it in the quiet waters of County Lake, a short distance away, where the reflection of the sky provides a stark, mirror-like contrast to the dense, tangled undergrowth of the nearby forests.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Elba, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.414611, -86.067724. 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 Elba includes the ZIP code (36323), telephone area code (334), county seat of Coffee County (Elba), and school district assignment (Elba City School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |