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Fairview Alabama Map

Explore Fairview, 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 Fairview, Alabama

How to Use This Fairview, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	34.250195
Longitude	-86.677724
Population	543
Density	97.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	35579, 35045, 35553, 35058
Area Code	205, 256
County Seat	Jasper
School District	Cullman County School District

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About Fairview, Alabama

Fairview is a locality in Walker County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 543. The population density is 97.7 people per km². Fairview is located at 34.2502°N, 86.6777°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Fairview is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35579, 35045, 35553.

Fairview occupies a quiet stretch of land where the earth shifts from stubborn red clay into the deep, shaded quiet of dense hardwood stands. It lies 16.3 miles south-southwest of Jasper, AL (from Jasper, AL: bearing 195°T), and is situated 17.3 miles west-southwest of Dora. This landscape is defined by the slow, rhythmic crawl of East Branch Indian Creek, which carves a path through the brush just a mile away, and the presence of the Mulberry Fork Wildlife Management Area, which blankets the immediate surroundings in a thick, unmanicured wilderness. To the distance, the faint, bruised outline of the Blue Ridge rises against the horizon, a serrated edge that catches the final, bruised light of a humid afternoon. Three miles away, the low dip of Miner Hollow holds the morning mist long after the sun has begun to dry the dew from the fields, creating a pocket of stillness that feels entirely removed from the noise of the modern world.

Fairview maintains a pace dictated more by the turning of the seasons than the ticking of a clock, rooted in a history of agrarian patience that still colors the local character. While the economy remains tied to the land and the modest commerce of a central crossroads, the nearby presence of Bankhead Lake provides a cooling reprieve from the heavy heat that settles over the region during the summer months. Families here move with the deliberate caution of people who know their neighbors, maintaining a social climate where private industry and communal reliance are held in equal measure. Life in Fairview is a persistent negotiation with the soil, an existence defined by the long, golden afternoons that stretch across the clearings and the quiet endurance of a place that values its own slow, steady pulse above the frantic demands of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Baileyton Good Time DragStrip (Attraction) — 3.9 mi, 093° E
Dane Estes Memorial (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 146° SE
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 8.3 mi, 134° SE
Walter Cotton Gin (Historic Ruins) — 9.0 mi, 179° S
Colonel Cullman (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 243° SW
Cullman County Museum (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 243° SW
Cullman Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 249° W
Sportsman Lake (Attraction) — 11.2 mi, 249° W
Heritage Park (Local Recreation) — 11.4 mi, 236° SW
Hurricane Creek Park (State Park) — 12.4 mi, 281° W
Saint Joseph (Public Artwork) — 13.4 mi, 182° S
Crooked Creek Civil War Museum (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 264° W
Clarkson Covered Bridge (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 261° W
J.P. Cain Stadium (Stadium) — 19.0 mi, 311° NW
Nectar Falls (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 169° S
Bangor Cave (Historic Ruins) — 19.4 mi, 193° S
The Burleson Center (Arts Centre) — 19.9 mi, 313° NW
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 20.1 mi, 347° N · 35k acres
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 24.7 mi, 271° W · 182k acres
SMPA Artist House (Museum) — 25.8 mi, 086° E
Lake Guntersville State Park (State Park) — 26.2 mi, 071° E
Albertville Museum (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 087° E
Dallas W. Fanning Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 28.2 mi, 353° N
Mabrey Outlook (Viewpoint) — 29.2 mi, 070° E
Swan Creek Wildlife Management Area (National Conservation Area) — 30.7 mi, 329° NW · 4,011 acres
Fern Cave National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.5 mi, 035° NE · 406 acres
Sipsey Fork West Fork, Alabama Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 38.1 mi, 265° W · 10k acres
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 38.4 mi, 277° W · 26k acres
Jackson County Waterfowl Area And Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 39.5 mi, 049° NE · 16k acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 65.5 mi, 148° SE · 395k acres

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