Gurley Alabama Map

About Gurley, Alabama

Gurley is a locality in Madison County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 816. The population density is 88.7 people per km². Gurley is located at 34.7025°N, 86.3743°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gurley is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35133, 35748.

Gurley emerges from the red clay earth where the Shanty Branch cuts a narrow, winding path through the landscape. It lies 12.1 miles east of Huntsville, AL (from Huntsville, AL: bearing 99°T), and is situated 9.2 miles north-northeast of Owens Cross Roads. The Shanty Branch moves with a persistent, low murmur, carving its way through the dense vegetation that defines the local terrain. Gurley Mountain rises abruptly just a mile away, its silhouette casting long, cooling shadows over the valley floor as the afternoon sun begins to dip. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness, often thick with the scent of pine and damp soil, while the nearby Negro Hollow creates a natural basin that traps the evening mist. Those seeking a quiet expanse of green often find their way to the Madison County Recreation Center, where the open fields offer a reprieve from the encroaching thickets of hardwood.

Gurley carries the quiet weight of a place that has long measured time by the cycles of the harvest rather than the frantic pace of the outside world. The economy remains anchored to the land, an extension of the broader regional tradition of agriculture that has defined these plains for generations. Life in Gurley moves with an unpretentious gravity, marked by the steady labor of those who work the fields and the slow change of seasons that turns the foliage from deep emerald to a scorched, dusty brown. While Woodland Lake sits twelve miles distant, the people here look inward to their own immediate woods and hollows, finding a grounded sense of belonging in the soil they cultivate. It is a place where the history of the region is felt in the texture of the back roads and the persistent, slow growth of the timber that anchors the horizon.

About This Gurley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gurley, Alabama. Coordinates: 34.702471, -86.37433. 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 Gurley includes the ZIP code (35133, 35748), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Madison County (Huntsville), and school district assignment (Madison 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.