Glenwood Alabama Map

About Glenwood, Alabama

Glenwood is a locality in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 152. The population density is 80.3 people per km². Glenwood is located at 31.6713°N, 86.1737°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Glenwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 36303, 36034, 36035.

Glenwood emerges from the humid, red-clay expanse of the Alabama interior, where the horizon is defined by the subtle, persistent rise of Gopher Ridge five miles to the west. It lies 15.5 miles southwest of Troy, AL (from Troy, AL: bearing 230°T), and is situated 6.5 miles east-southeast of Luverne. The landscape here is a quiet confluence of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwoods, punctuated by the slow, deliberate movement of the Conecuh River just a mile from the center of the settlement. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thick, golden shafts during the humid afternoons, casting long, shifting shadows across the red-clay back roads that wind toward the moisture-rich periphery of the State-owned Submerged Lands. Two miles away, the surface of Smiths Ponds remains a polished mirror, catching the sky and anchoring the local topography in a stillness that predates the current reach of the modern highway.

Glenwood maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of pecan and peach cultivation, a commerce that has sustained the local spirit through generations of profound social and agricultural change. The town carries the weight of a complex civil-rights memory, a history etched into the very soil that supports its modest, enduring economy. Life in Glenwood moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands the value of land, where the local character is formed by the interplay of deep-rooted agricultural industry and the quiet dignity of a community that has persisted through long, sweltering summers. Every structure and field bears witness to a resilience that is rarely spoken of, but is felt in the steady, grounded way the inhabitants navigate the changing seasons of this inland landscape.

About This Glenwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glenwood, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.671266, -86.173687. 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 Glenwood includes the ZIP code (36303, 36034, 36035), telephone area code (334, 251), county seat of Crenshaw County (Luverne), and school district assignment (Crenshaw 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.