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Locust Fork Alabama Map

Explore Locust Fork, 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 Locust Fork, Alabama

How to Use This Locust Fork, Alabama Map

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

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	Locust Fork
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Blount County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.876794
Longitude	-86.647093
Population	1,192
Density	118.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	35097, 35133
Area Code	205, 256
County Seat	Oneonta
School District	Blount County School District

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About Locust Fork, Alabama

Locust Fork is a locality in Blount County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,192. The population density is 118.7 people per km². Locust Fork is located at 33.8768°N, 86.6471°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Locust Fork is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35097, 35133.

Locust Fork emerges from the dense, verdant folds of the Alabama landscape where the Blackburn Fork Little Warrior River carves a serpentine path through the deep, iron-rich earth. It lies 14.2 miles north of Clay, AL (from Clay, AL: bearing 356°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west-southwest of Oneonta. Red Mountain provides a rugged, silent spine to the terrain, its weathered slopes casting long, cooling shadows over the quiet expanse of Ingham Valley just a few miles away. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the longleaf pine and hardwood stands, while the light at dusk settles in a bruised, amber glow upon the clay-heavy soil. A short distance away, the stillness of Inland Lake mirrors the sky, offering a stark, glassy contrast to the energetic rush of the nearby Nectar Falls, where the water fractures into white lace against the ancient stone.

Locust Fork maintains a character defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons and the enduring legacy of the land itself. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil and the modest industry that has long sustained these scattered homesteads, avoiding the frantic pace of the larger metropolitan centers. Residents move with a quiet familiarity through the vicinity of State-owned Submerged Lands, a protected expanse that preserves the native character of the woods against the encroaching reach of time. Life here is measured by the quality of the harvest and the persistent, unyielding strength of the ridges, where the memory of those who worked these fields persists in the architecture of the barns and the narrow, winding back roads that trace the contours of the hills.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 2.2 mi, 317° NW
Nectar Falls (Attraction) — 7.3 mi, 014° N
Bangor Cave (Historic Ruins) — 9.3 mi, 318° NW
Blount Springs (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 294° NW
Vietnam Memorial (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 065° NE
Blountsville (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 015° N
OBA Artwalk (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 064° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 11.6 mi, 234° SW
Rickwood Caverns State Park (State Park) — 11.6 mi, 271° W
Turkey Creek Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 12.0 mi, 192° S
Saint Francis of Assisi (Public Artwork) — 12.6 mi, 349° N
Walter Cotton Gin (Historic Ruins) — 16.9 mi, 354° N
ACTA Theater (Theatre) — 17.3 mi, 172° S
Trussville Entertainment District (Attraction) — 18.0 mi, 173° S
Trussville Childrens Theater (Theatre) — 18.9 mi, 179° S
Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 23.7 mi, 188° S
Cullman County Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 332° NW
Sportsman Lake (Attraction) — 25.1 mi, 331° NW
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 26.0 mi, 201° S
Legacy Arena (Stadium) — 26.2 mi, 201° S
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 26.5 mi, 200° S
Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 26.7 mi, 200° S
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 29.5 mi, 291° W · 182k acres
Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 33.7 mi, 184° S
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 44.3 mi, 133° SE · 395k acres
Sipsey Fork West Fork, Alabama Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 45.3 mi, 299° NW · 10k acres
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.8 mi, 352° N · 35k acres
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 50.1 mi, 307° NW · 26k acres
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 51.3 mi, 106° E · 18k acres
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 54.6 mi, 125° SE · 7,400 acres

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