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Gainesville Alabama Map

Explore Gainesville, 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 Gainesville, Alabama

How to Use This Gainesville, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	32.820964
Longitude	-88.158914
Population	172
Density	38.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	35464
Area Code	256
County Seat	Livingston
School District	Sumter County School District

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About Gainesville, Alabama

Gainesville is a locality in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 172. The population density is 38.6 people per km². Gainesville is located at 32.8210°N, 88.1589°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gainesville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35464.

Gainesville occupies a quiet expanse of fertile land where the slow, deliberate current of the Tombigbee River carves a path through the humid, loam-heavy earth. It lies 43.5 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa, AL (from Tuscaloosa, AL: bearing 232°T), and is situated 16.4 miles north of Livingston. The horizon remains largely level, though the distant suggestion of Beach Ridge offers a faint, jagged promise of elevation far to the north, while the immediate surroundings are dominated by the damp, verdant reach of State-owned Submerged Lands that spill into the edges of Demopolis Lake. In the golden hour, the light thickens, turning the broad-leafed hardwoods and longleaf pines into silhouettes that seem to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has retreated. The air here carries the weight of a thousand afternoons, heavy with the scent of damp soil and the persistent, quiet growth of the river basin.

Gainesville maintains a character shaped by the long, deep memory of the Alabama frontier, where the economy once turned on the movement of goods through river ports and the steady yield of the surrounding fields. The legacy of the nineteenth century lingers in the architecture of the older streets, where weathered brick and timber witness the slow, rhythmic pace of a locality that has seen the rise and fall of commercial tides. While Bryant Gulley lies miles away, the natural drainage of the land has always dictated the flow of life, keeping the rhythm of the day tied to the seasons of growth and the occasional rise of the waters. Today, Gainesville persists as a place of quiet endurance, where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the rustle of wind through the tall grasses or the distant, muffled sound of a tractor working the clay-rich soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 0.3 mi, 027° NE
Shark Tooth Creek (Attraction) — 14.7 mi, 011° N
UWA Amphitheater (Theatre) — 15.7 mi, 186° S
Old Bethany Cemetary (Monument) — 15.9 mi, 007° N
Civil Rights Marker (Monument) — 16.2 mi, 086° E
David K. Nelson (Demopolis) Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 23.1 mi, 140° SE
Wildcat Stadium (Stadium) — 24.2 mi, 199° S
M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial Area (State Recreation Area) — 27.5 mi, 114° SE
Warhouse Drive-In (Cinema) — 27.7 mi, 141° SE
Warhouse Performing Arts Center (Cinema) — 28.2 mi, 138° SE
Tanglewood - University of Alabama's J. Nicholene Bishop Biological Station (Nature Reserve) — 28.3 mi, 085° E
Sipsey River Complex (State Conservation Area) — 30.3 mi, 039° NE
Simmons-Wright1884 Cafe (Attraction) — 31.9 mi, 211° SW
Mound M (Attraction) — 33.0 mi, 067° NE
Mound N (Attraction) — 33.0 mi, 067° NE
Burial Mound (Viewpoint) — 33.0 mi, 067° NE
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 37.2 mi, 083° E · 395k acres
Lake Lurleen State Park (State Park) — 41.9 mi, 040° NE
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.3 mi, 314° NW · 97k acres
Tombigbee National Forest (National Forest) — 51.8 mi, 304° NW · 67k acres

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