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Elberta Alabama Map

Explore Elberta, 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 Elberta, Alabama

How to Use This Elberta, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	30.373753
Longitude	-87.595729
Population	1,974
Density	109.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	36530
Area Code	251
County Seat	Bay Minette
School District	Baldwin County School District

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About Elberta, Alabama

Elberta is a locality in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,974. The population density is 109.2 people per km². Elberta is located at 30.3738°N, 87.5957°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Elberta is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36530.

Elberta emerges from the damp, low-lying coastal plains where the heavy, salt-flecked air of the Gulf of Mexico presses against the dense canopy of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood. It lies 5.1 miles east of Foley, AL (from Foley, AL: bearing 84°T), and is situated 8.4 miles north of Orange Beach. The landscape is defined by the dark, slow-moving currents of Miflin Creek, which carves a path through the red-clay soil, its banks draped in the silver-gray curtains of Spanish moss that sway in the humid afternoon breeze. Five miles from the open coastline, the terrain remains flat and saturated, a quiet threshold where the land begins to surrender its grip to the sea. Sunlight here takes on a thick, honeyed quality at dusk, pooling in the irrigation ditches and catching the iridescent sheen on the leaves of the wild brush that encroaches upon the quiet back roads.

Elberta preserves the distinct, deliberate character of its early twentieth-century agricultural settlers, whose legacy remains etched into the orderly rows of the surrounding fields. The local economy persists as a quiet mosaic of independent farming and small-scale commerce, far removed from the frantic pace of the larger coastal developments. Residents might spend a weekend morning driving toward the horizon to reach the quiet expanse of John B Foley Park, or perhaps navigating the waters toward the distant silhouette of Robinson Island. Life in Elberta moves with a measured, cyclical gravity, tethered to the harvest and the seasonal shifts of the Gulf of Mexico, while the distant, serene reach of Shelby Lakes offers a rare inland sanctuary for those seeking the stillness of deeper, freshwater horizons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bamahenge (Public Artwork) — 3.4 mi, 150° SE
Blue Marlin (Monument) — 5.8 mi, 200° S
Gulf State Park (State Park) — 6.3 mi, 180° S
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 6.7 mi, 254° W
John Snook Telephone Museum (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 309° NW
Foley Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 6.8 mi, 293° NW
Gulf Shores Sports Complex (Local Park) — 7.1 mi, 238° SW
Perdido Key State Park (State Park) — 8.7 mi, 131° SE
Tarkiln Bayou State Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 9.1 mi, 094° E
Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park (State Conservation Area) — 9.1 mi, 094° E
Lillian Swamp Complex (State Conservation Area) — 9.7 mi, 067° NE
Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 10.5 mi, 280° W
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.6 mi, 231° SW · 20k acres
Gulf Islands National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 11.5 mi, 114° SE · 213k acres
Observation Platform (Viewpoint) — 11.6 mi, 112° E
Heidelberg Farm (Monument) — 13.4 mi, 314° NW
Fort McRee (Historic Ruins) — 16.9 mi, 101° E
Florida National Scenic Trail Northern Terminus (Monument) — 18.7 mi, 100° E
Utility Pole (Historic Ruins) — 19.9 mi, 100° E
Fairhope Museum of History (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 300° NW
Quayside Art Gallery (Gallery) — 22.9 mi, 084° E
Archaeological Dig Site (Attraction) — 22.9 mi, 084° E
Pensacola Little Theatre (Theatre) — 22.9 mi, 084° E
UWF Historic Trust (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 084° E
Museum of Industry (Museum) — 23.0 mi, 084° E
Tivoli High House (Museum) — 23.1 mi, 084° E
Historic Pensacola Village (Attraction) — 23.1 mi, 084° E
1964 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud Iii (Attraction) — 23.8 mi, 083° E
Bayfront Beach (Attraction) — 26.2 mi, 312° NW
Apalachicola National Forest (National Forest) — 38.1 mi, 079° E · 576k acres

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