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Ider Alabama Map

Explore Ider, 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 Ider, Alabama

How to Use This Ider, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	34.702599
Longitude	-85.668958
Population	735
Density	52.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	35981
Area Code	334, 205
County Seat	Fort Payne
School District	DeKalb County School District

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About Ider, Alabama

Ider is a locality in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 735. The population density is 52.3 people per km². Ider is located at 34.7026°N, 85.6690°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ider is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35981.

Ider sprawls across the high, red-earthed tableland of DeKalb County, where the horizon is defined by the distant, hazy silhouette of Little Ridge. It lies 18.8 miles north of Fort Payne, AL (from Fort Payne, AL: bearing 7°T), and is situated 7.3 miles northeast of Henagar. Fuller Creek carves a quiet, persistent path through the surrounding woodland, its waters feeding into the local drainage that eventually finds its way toward the Tennessee River valley. The air here holds a distinct, heavy stillness, especially when the afternoon light catches the iron-rich soil, turning the plowed fields to a deep, bruised crimson. Beyond the immediate canopy of longleaf pine and hardwood, the land dips toward the low-lying expanse of Mason Bottom, a place where the shadows stretch long and thin as the sun retreats. Residents often gather at the Ider High School Athletic Fields, where the evening practice lights cut sharply into the gathering gloom, providing a singular, pulsing beacon against the rural darkness.

Economic life in Ider remains tethered to the rhythm of the land and the steady, unadorned labor of those who work the poultry houses and the small-scale agricultural plots that stitch the landscape together. History here is not written in grand monuments but in the persistent survival of family homesteads and the shared memory of the red-clay back roads that wind toward J R Gilberts Lake. While the pace of modern industry pulls at the edges of the county, the focus remains on the seasonal cycles of the harvest and the maintenance of local infrastructure. Travelers passing through on their way toward the mist-shrouded descent of High Falls find a place that favors utility over ornament, a locality where the weight of the past is measured in the quiet endurance of the people rather than in plaques or archives. Even the most casual observer recognizes that Ider exists in a state of deliberate suspension, holding fast to a legacy of self-reliance that resists the hurried encroachment of the world outside.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ider Town Park (Local Park) — 0.3 mi, 147° SE
Ider High School Athletic Fields (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 349° N
Raccoon Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.1 mi, 294° NW
Desoto State Park (State Park) — 10.1 mi, 158° S
Pisgah Civitan Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 10.9 mi, 259° W
DeKalb County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 10.9 mi, 219° SW
Jackson County Waterfowl Area And Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 11.2 mi, 327° NW · 16k acres
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 11.3 mi, 313° NW
Crockford-Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.0 mi, 109° E
Cloudland Canyon State Park (State Park) — 12.7 mi, 051° NE
Old Rock Schoolhouses (Historic Ruins) — 12.9 mi, 170° S
Overlook #2 (Viewpoint) — 14.2 mi, 050° NE
Little River Canyon National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 14.6 mi, 167° S · 11k acres
Fort Payne Cinema (Cinema) — 16.1 mi, 185° S
Fort Payne Opera House (Theatre) — 18.0 mi, 189° S
Fort Payne Depot and Museum (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 189° S
The band Alabama (Public Artwork) — 18.2 mi, 189° S
Alabama Fan Club and Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 191° S
Russell Cave National Monument (National Monument) — 20.1 mi, 336° NW · 308 acres
Neversink Pit (Nature Reserve) — 20.4 mi, 289° W
South Pittsburg Municipal Hospital (Attraction) — 20.9 mi, 353° N
Southern Scottsboro Depot (Attraction) — 21.0 mi, 265° W
Beene Stadium (Stadium) — 21.1 mi, 354° N
Lodge Museum of Cast Iron (Museum) — 21.4 mi, 355° N
Mushroom Rock (Attraction) — 22.8 mi, 175° S
Georgia 4th Cavalry (Monument) — 24.3 mi, 061° NE
John Sumach Reservation (Nature Reserve) — 24.5 mi, 321° NW
Chattahoochee National Forest (National Forest) — 26.1 mi, 131° SE · 752k acres
2nd, 4th, 5th, & 6th Kentucky U.s. Cavalry Marker (Monument) — 26.5 mi, 058° NE
Lytle Monument (Monument) — 26.9 mi, 057° NE

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