Explore Hackneyville, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hackneyville, 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 Hackneyville.
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 | Hackneyville |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Tallapoosa County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.060398 |
| Longitude | -85.93302 |
| Population | 349 |
| Density | 15.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 35010, 35072 |
| Area Code | 205, 256 |
| County Seat | Dadeville |
| School District | Tallapoosa County School District |
Hackneyville reveals itself through the steady, amber-tinted flow of Hackney Creek, which carves a modest path through the dense, verdant woodlands of the Alabama interior. It lies 8.1 miles north of Alexander City, AL (from Alexander City, AL: bearing 9°T), and is situated 18.6 miles north-northwest of Dadeville. Five miles to the west, the quiet silhouette of Candler Mountain rises against the horizon, providing a stationary anchor for a landscape defined by deep, red-clay earth and the pervasive, humid stillness of the southern inland. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, heavy clarity, casting long shadows across the bottomland hardwoods and staining the pine needles a deep, burnished copper that lingers long after the sun has slipped away. Eight miles distant, the expansive surface of Martin Lake offers a cool, reflective contrast to the dense vegetation, while further reaches of the surrounding terrain remain marked by the quiet, protected solitude of the State-owned Submerged Lands.
Hackneyville carries the quiet weight of generations who have worked this soil, where the economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate rhythms of agricultural life and the harvest of timber. The local character is drawn from a history of resilience, where the legacy of the land is measured not in grand monuments, but in the enduring texture of community life and the persistence of family homesteads that have weathered the changing seasons of the rural South. Life in Hackneyville moves with a measured cadence, unbothered by the frantic pace of the wider world, favoring the hum of cicadas and the cooling air of evening over the noise of industry. It is a place where the air hangs thick with the scent of damp earth and pine, and where the inhabitants maintain a stoic, quiet connection to a geography that has remained largely unchanged by the encroaching modern era.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hackneyville, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.060398, -85.93302. 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 Hackneyville includes the ZIP code (35010, 35072), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Tallapoosa County (Dadeville), and school district assignment (Tallapoosa County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |