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Jacksons' Gap Alabama Map

Explore Jacksons' Gap, 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 Jacksons' Gap, Alabama

How to Use This Jacksons' Gap, Alabama Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Jacksons' Gap, 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 Jacksons' Gap.

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	Jacksons' Gap
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Tallapoosa County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	32.886236
Longitude	-85.811627
Population	747
Density	33.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	36861
Area Code	251
County Seat	Dadeville
School District	Tallapoosa County School District

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About Jacksons' Gap, Alabama

Jacksons' Gap is a locality in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 747. The population density is 33.9 people per km². Jacksons' Gap is located at 32.8862°N, 85.8116°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Jacksons' Gap is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36861.

Jacksons' Gap emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet gathering of structures defined by the persistent, winding path of Gin House Branch. It lies 9.2 miles east-southeast of Alexander City, AL (from Alexander City, AL: bearing 116°T), and is situated 4.7 miles northwest of Dadeville. This landscape is characterized by deep, iron-rich soil that clings to the tires of passing trucks, while the humid air hangs heavy with the scent of longleaf pine and the damp, cooling breath of bottomland hardwood. To the horizon, the silhouette of Hillabee Ridge provides a jagged, distant boundary to the sky, framing a world of inland plains and dense, quiet timber. Only two miles away, the waters of Martin Lake gather in the lowlands, reflecting the vast, unbroken canopy that stretches toward the State-owned Submerged Lands, a protected expanse where the wilderness remains largely undisturbed by the reach of modern development.

Jacksons' Gap retains the skeletal remains of a regional economy built on the strength of the land, where the rhythms of agriculture have gradually yielded to a slower, more deliberate pace of life. The history of the region is etched into the quiet intersections and the weathered wood of older buildings, standing as silent observers to the shifts in local industry and the changing faces of those who work the fields. Residents navigate the day with a focused, understated persistence, moving between the local trade routes and the quietude of the surrounding forests. There is a distinct, solitary beauty in the way the late afternoon light flattens against the red-clay banks of the local streams, casting long, sharp shadows that seem to hold the memory of a harder, more labor-intensive past while the current generation quietly sustains the character of the place.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 3.2 mi, 312° NW
Wind Creek State Park (State Park) — 6.3 mi, 260° W
Catie Radney's Studio (Arts Centre) — 9.1 mi, 296° NW
Charles E Bailey Sportplex (Local Recreation) — 9.6 mi, 287° W
Airplane Monument (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 286° W
Yates Lake West Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.2 mi, 200° S
Coon Creek Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 19.9 mi, 190° S
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 22.8 mi, 319° NW · 395k acres
Chambers County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 26.2 mi, 098° E
Charles Barkley (Public Artwork) — 27.0 mi, 137° SE
University Seal (Attraction) — 27.2 mi, 135° SE
Civil War Cannon Lathe (Attraction) — 27.3 mi, 135° SE
WWI Memorial (Monument) — 27.3 mi, 135° SE
Veteran's Memorial Monument (Monument) — 27.4 mi, 134° SE
Founders' Oak (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 136° SE
Tuskegee National Forest (National Forest) — 28.6 mi, 156° SE · 11k acres
Chewacla State Park (State Park) — 28.9 mi, 142° SE
Bell UH-1 (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 007° N
Opelika Community Theatre (Theatre) — 31.3 mi, 121° SE
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site (Museum) — 32.2 mi, 169° S
Kelly Fitzgerald Art Museum (Museum) — 33.1 mi, 224° SW
Dixie Art Colony Foundation (Gallery) — 33.2 mi, 224° SW
Marcia Weber Art Objects (Gallery) — 33.2 mi, 224° SW
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 33.3 mi, 358° N · 7,400 acres
Wetumpka Depot Players (Arts Centre) — 33.4 mi, 224° SW
Rumbling Water Studios and Gallery (Gallery) — 33.4 mi, 224° SW
Fort Jackson (Historic Ruins) — 36.9 mi, 225° SW
Restaurant Overlook (Viewpoint) — 40.9 mi, 000° N
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 53.4 mi, 002° N · 18k acres
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 65.7 mi, 009° N · 8,947 acres

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