Livingston Alabama Map

About Livingston, Alabama

Livingston is a locality in Sumter County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,436. The population density is 186.1 people per km². Livingston is located at 32.5955°N, 88.1869°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Livingston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35470.

Livingston occupies a landscape of heavy, red-clay earth where the sunlight thickens in the humid air, casting long, bruised shadows across the dense stands of longleaf pine. It lies 56.2 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa, AL (from Tuscaloosa, AL: bearing 220°T), and is situated 9.3 miles northeast of York. Whiterock Creek traces a slow, winding path through the low-lying timberland, its dark waters reflecting the heavy canopy of hardwoods that characterize this inland stretch of the Black Belt. To the west, the horizon remains flat and stubborn, though on the clearest mornings, the faint, jagged silhouette of Beach Ridge rises like a jagged tooth against the pale sky. Only a mile away, the quiet stillness of Lake L U offers a mirror to the clouds, while the nearby expanse of State-owned Submerged Lands remains a tangled, wild sanctuary of brush and swamp-willow, indifferent to the encroaching heat of the afternoon.

Livingston serves as a quiet center of gravity for the surrounding agricultural plains, where the economy has long been tethered to the slow growth of timber and the seasonal cycles of the soil. The architecture of the downtown district holds the weight of a complex history, with brick facades standing as silent witnesses to the shifting currents of industry and the endurance of the local college. Life in Livingston moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, marked by the occasional rumble of a passing train or the distant hum of machinery from the outskirts. Beyond the town limits, the road eventually leads toward the deeper, more rugged terrain of Bryant Gulley, grounding the inhabitants in a geography that demands patience and rewards those who observe the subtle, seasonal changes in the color of the fields.

About This Livingston Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Livingston, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.595549, -88.186929. 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 Livingston includes the ZIP code (35470), telephone area code (256), county seat of Sumter County (Livingston), and school district assignment (Sumter 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.