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McDonald Chapel Alabama Map

Explore McDonald Chapel, 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 McDonald Chapel, Alabama

How to Use This McDonald Chapel, Alabama Map

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

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	McDonald Chapel
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Jefferson County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.521773
Longitude	-86.933604
Population	739
Density	268.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	35224
Area Code	205
County Seat	Birmingham
School District	Jefferson County School District

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About McDonald Chapel, Alabama

McDonald Chapel is a locality in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 739. The population density is 268.2 people per km². McDonald Chapel is located at 33.5218°N, 86.9336°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 35224.

McDonald Chapel occupies a landscape defined by the quiet, heavy persistence of Alabama’s red-clay earth and the dense, encroaching shadow of thick woodland. It lies 6.1 miles northeast of Hueytown, AL (from Hueytown, AL: bearing 37°T), and is situated 7.6 miles west of Birmingham. The air here holds a humid weight, pressing down upon the foliage of hardwood trees that thrive in the pockets of shade found near the flow of Camp Branch. A few miles to the north, the rise of Irish Hill breaks the horizon, offering a subtle shift in elevation that contrasts with the low-lying, damp floor of Harden Hollow. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thin, dusty shafts during the late afternoon, illuminating the stillness of the terrain while Bayview Lake remains a silent mirror of the sky, tucked away from the main thoroughfares.

Industrial history has long dictated the rhythm of daily existence in McDonald Chapel, leaving behind a legacy of labor that lingers in the architecture and the quietude of its residential streets. The economy, once tethered to the extraction and movement of natural resources, now transitions into a slower, more deliberate pace, where the memory of heavy machinery has been replaced by the steady hum of local life. Residents find respite in the green spaces of Spring Water Park, where the land serves as a quiet witness to the generations that have built their lives upon this foundation. Even as the modern world encroaches, the environment retains a sense of seclusion, with the distant, protected reaches of the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest standing as a reminder of the vast, untamed wilderness that once defined this entire region.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Spring Water Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 049° NE
Sherman Heights South (Vp18) (Local Park) — 1.3 mi, 112° E
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 043° NE
Pleasant Grove Athletic Complex (Local Recreation) — 3.1 mi, 241° SW
Pleasant Grove Softball Park (Local Recreation) — 3.3 mi, 226° SW
Ishkooda Overlook (Viewpoint) — 6.1 mi, 145° SE
MESH Collective Art (Public Artwork) — 6.6 mi, 141° SE
Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Theatre (Theatre) — 6.9 mi, 088° E
Legacy Arena (Stadium) — 7.0 mi, 089° E
Rainbow LED Tunnel (Attraction) — 7.0 mi, 097° E
Steelworker (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 090° E
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 7.1 mi, 088° E
Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 7.2 mi, 094° E
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 7.4 mi, 093° E
Heaviest Corner on Earth (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 094° E
Alys Stephens Center (Theatre) — 7.4 mi, 103° E
Birmingham Premiere LUX Ciné GSX & Pizza Pub (Cinema) — 8.0 mi, 135° SE
The Storyteller (Monument) — 8.1 mi, 100° E
Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 9.1 mi, 116° SE
Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 115° SE
Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 10.1 mi, 189° S · 48 acres
Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 13.2 mi, 085° E
Oak Grove Football Stadium (Stadium) — 13.4 mi, 254° W
Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 16.0 mi, 147° SE
Old CCC Lakside Campsite ("Unit 1") (Historic Ruins) — 17.1 mi, 135° SE
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.8 mi, 194° S · 8,383 acres
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 36.6 mi, 342° N · 182k acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 40.2 mi, 209° SW · 395k acres

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