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Kennedy Alabama Map

Explore Kennedy, 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 Kennedy, Alabama

How to Use This Kennedy, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	33.587057
Longitude	-87.984468
Population	435
Density	54.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	35574
Area Code	205
County Seat	Vernon
School District	Lamar County School District

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About Kennedy, Alabama

Kennedy is a locality in Lamar County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 435. The population density is 54.4 people per km². Kennedy is located at 33.5871°N, 87.9845°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Kennedy is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35574.

Kennedy occupies a quiet stretch of Alabama where the horizon is defined by the heavy, humid stillness of the deep interior and the persistent, iron-rich stain of red-clay back roads. It lies 34.1 miles northwest of Northport, AL (from Northport, AL: bearing 317°T), and is situated 11.1 miles southwest of Fayette. The landscape around Kennedy unfolds in broad, unassuming swells of woodland, where the light at dusk turns the longleaf pines into jagged silhouettes against a sky of bruised violet. Only a mile away, the dark, slow-moving waters of Luxapallila Creek carve a path through the dense bottomland, providing a rhythmic, low-frequency hum that anchors the surrounding silence. To the north, the distant, hazy outline of Scareum Mountain serves as a fixed marker in the geography, while the nearby State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a wild, untamed character that keeps the encroaching modern world at an arm’s length.

Life in Kennedy persists with an economy forged from the soil and the legacy of the regional timber trade, reflecting a history that remains quietly present in the architecture of the older storefronts and the local vernacular. While Freeman Lake sits ten miles out, offering a different stillness, the daily pulse of the people here is tied to the cycles of the seasons and the slow, deliberate work of maintaining the land. The memory of the past is not a monument but a living weight, felt in the way the air clings to the skin on a summer afternoon and in the enduring patience of those who call Kennedy their own. There is a profound, unadorned beauty in the way the town organizes itself around the changing light, honoring a tradition of resilience that has survived the shifting currents of the American South.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 0.5 mi, 335° NW
Guthrie Smith Park (Local Park) — 13.0 mi, 048° NE
Fayette County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 14.4 mi, 071° E
Sipsey River Complex (State Conservation Area) — 18.4 mi, 137° SE
Lamar County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 19.3 mi, 313° NW
Lake Lowndes State Park (State Park) — 20.2 mi, 240° SW
Lake Lurleen State Park (State Park) — 25.4 mi, 138° SE
Columbus Arts Council (Arts Centre) — 26.3 mi, 256° W
Canal Section Wma (State Conservation Area) — 31.6 mi, 291° W
Kentuck Museum (Museum) — 32.9 mi, 136° SE
Memorial Bridge (Monument) — 33.3 mi, 138° SE
Jackson's Military Road (Monument) — 33.7 mi, 359° N
War Memorial (Monument) — 33.8 mi, 136° SE
Virginia Shirley Studio-Gallery (Gallery) — 34.6 mi, 137° SE
Bama Belle (Attraction) — 35.1 mi, 137° SE
Tuscaloosa Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 35.1 mi, 137° SE
Sunflower Bike Rack (Public Artwork) — 35.1 mi, 137° SE
Old Tavern (Museum) — 35.3 mi, 138° SE
Queen City Fountain (Historic Ruins) — 35.4 mi, 137° SE
Indian Mound (Historic Ruins) — 35.5 mi, 000° N
Lorrie Lane Studio (Gallery) — 35.5 mi, 137° SE
Allen Bales Theatre (Theatre) — 36.1 mi, 136° SE
Alabama Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 36.3 mi, 135° SE
Woody Clements Stadium (Stadium) — 37.6 mi, 130° SE
Shark Tooth Creek (Attraction) — 39.2 mi, 191° S
Amory Regional Museum (Museum) — 39.3 mi, 314° NW
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 39.9 mi, 031° NE · 182k acres
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.3 mi, 243° SW · 97k acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 47.9 mi, 146° SE · 395k acres
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 56.9 mi, 029° NE · 26k acres

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