Faunsdale Alabama Map

About Faunsdale, Alabama

Faunsdale is a locality in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 90. The population density is 125.4 people per km². Faunsdale is located at 32.4599°N, 87.5939°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Faunsdale is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36738.

Faunsdale emerges from the dark, fertile soil of the Black Belt, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that seems to hold the weight of the coming afternoon. It lies 33.6 miles west of Selma, AL (from Selma, AL: bearing 276°T), and is situated 14.7 miles east-southeast of Demopolis. The landscape around Faunsdale is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Powell Creek, which carves a quiet path through the dense bottomland hardwoods that define the local canopy. Far to the south, the humid air hangs heavy with the scent of pine and damp earth, while the distant, jagged silhouette of Beach Ridge haunts the western skyline like a memory of harder, rockier terrain. In the quiet transition of dusk, the light turns a bruised violet, casting long, thin shadows over the fields and reflecting faintly upon the still, glassy surface of Lake Roseland.

Agriculture remains the pulse of this place, where the legacy of cotton and timber continues to dictate the slow turn of the calendar. The proximity of the David K. Nelson (Demopolis) Wildlife Management Area preserves a sprawling, wilder character that contrasts with the orderly rows of the surrounding farmland. Faunsdale carries the quiet gravity of a history shaped by labor and the slow, persistent reclamation of nature, where the red-clay back roads lead to homesteads that have weathered generations of heat and rain. Life here maintains a cadence dictated by the seasons rather than the clock, a subtle endurance that persists in the way the local residents observe the heat of the day and the encroaching silence of the woods.

About This Faunsdale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Faunsdale, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.459859, -87.593894. 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 Faunsdale includes the ZIP code (36738), telephone area code (334), county seat of Marengo County (Linden), and school district assignment (Marengo 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.