Five Points Alabama Map
Five Points, Houston County
Five Points, Alabama — interactive Google street map, satellite and terrain views, Street View, live National Weather Service conditions and 7-day forecasts, real-time local and world news, and an editorial description of Five Points, Houston County.
Interactive Map of Five Points, Alabama
| City | Five Points |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Houston |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 31.032126 |
| Longitude | -85.411044 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
About Five Points, Alabama
Five Points is a locality in Houston County, Alabama, United States. Five Points is located at 31.0321°N, 85.4110°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 36855.0.
Five Points rests in a gentle hollow where the land begins its slow, rolling descent toward the Chattahoochee River basin. It lies 13.3 miles south of Dothan, AL (from Dothan, AL: bearing 185°T), and is situated 9.8 miles south-south-east of Taylor. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a sweet, earthy scent of pine needles and damp soil, a perfume of the deep woods that fringe the few scattered homesteads. Fields, once cleared for cotton and now often given over to pasture or wild growth, checker the landscape, their edges blurred by the encroaching scrub oak and tenacious vines. Sunlight, filtering through the dense canopy of mature oaks and hickories, paints shifting patterns on the dusty, unpaved roads that connect the scattered dwellings, lending a quiet, almost sacred aura to the humid stillness. The history of Five Points is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet persistence of its people and the land they have worked. For generations, this stretch of Houston County has been shaped by agriculture, with the rhythm of planting and harvest dictating the pace of life, though the economic tides have shifted, bringing with them a quieter existence. The local economy, once reliant on cotton fields that stretched as far as the eye could see, now finds sustenance in a mix of small-scale farming, local trades, and the steady, unhurried flow of everyday life. A few weathered barns, their paint long since surrendered to the elements, stand as silent sentinels to a bygone era, while the present is marked by the murmur of conversation at the general store and the distant hum of a tractor, sounds that define the enduring character of Five Points.
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About This Five Points Map Page
This page provides an interactive Google map of Five Points, Alabama with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Five Points and Houston County. Coordinates and population data are also included.
Location data for Five Points is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity, not name matching alone — ensuring the correct Five Points is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. Location verified by proximity — not name matching alone. |
