Explore Macedonia, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Macedonia, 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 Macedonia.
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 | Macedonia |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Lowndes County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.403139 |
| Longitude | -88.239221 |
| Population | 241 |
| Density | 23.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 36036, 36273, 35578, 35461 |
| Area Code | 205, 256 |
| County Seat | Hayneville |
| School District | Pickens County School District |
Macedonia emerges from the dense, humid embrace of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood where the light turns the color of bruised peaches as the sun dips behind the distant silhouette of County Line Hill. It lies 31.3 miles south-southeast of Selma, AL (from Selma, AL: bearing 156°T), and is situated 15.7 miles northwest of Greenville. Indian Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the landscape, its dark water reflecting the heavy, moisture-laden sky that defines this inland expanse. Four miles to the west, the State-owned Submerged Lands offer a quiet refuge of tangled thickets and untamed growth, while the serene surface of Florence Cabiniss Lake glimmers seven miles away, a steady presence in the stillness of the rural afternoon. The red-clay back roads hold the deep, iron-rich dust of the earth, marking the slow, deliberate pace of a landscape that measures its days by the shifting shadows of the canopy rather than the clock.
Macedonia maintains a quiet, persistent rhythm rooted in the traditions of the Southern interior, where the economy remains tethered to the slow yield of pecan groves and the cyclical labor of the land. The history here is etched into the very soil, a layering of civil-rights memory and the quiet endurance of those who have worked the fields and timber tracts for generations. Life in Macedonia moves with the gravity of the seasons, characterized by the hum of cicadas in the heat and the persistent, unforced industry of a place that values its own seclusion. There is a profound, grounded beauty in the way the local character resists the frantic pace of the outside world, favoring instead the steady, reliable patterns of a life lived close to the creek bank and the persistent, ancient growth of the woods.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Macedonia, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.403139, -88.239221. 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 Macedonia includes the ZIP code (36036, 36273, 35578), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Lowndes County (Hayneville), and school district assignment (Pickens County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |