Midway Alabama Map

About Midway, Alabama

Midway is a locality in Clarke County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 421. The population density is 49.1 people per km². Midway is located at 32.0764°N, 85.5244°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Midway is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 36861, 36042, 36728.

Midway unfolds across a landscape of red-clay earth and dense woodland, where the heavy, humid air clings to the longleaf pines and bottomland hardwoods. It lies 57.6 miles southwest of Selma, AL (from Selma, AL: bearing 231°T), and is situated 3.7 miles west-southwest of Thomasville. Bashi Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the terrain, its banks thick with vegetation that softens the light into a muted, verdant glow as it passes near the town. J D Phillips Lake sits as a quiet, still mirror in the landscape, reflecting the shifting clouds of an interior sky far removed from the turbulence of any coast. On the distant horizon, the faint, hazy silhouette of Chatman Ridge provides a jagged anchor to the view, while the ground itself sustains a steady, quiet rhythm of growth. Three miles away, the quiet expanse of Gates Dr. Park offers a localized sanctuary, where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the movement of insects in the tall grass.

Midway carries the weight of a long agricultural legacy, defined by the cultivation of pecans and peaches that have sustained the local economy for generations. The legacy of civil-rights memory lingers in the quiet architecture of the area, grounding the present in a profound sense of continuity that informs the character of its people. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, dictated by the cycles of the harvest and the seasonal shifts in the soil. The economy remains modest and tethered to the land, moving away from the industrial haste of larger centers to favor a way of life that values the slow maturation of the seasons. Residents move through their days with a quiet awareness of the history embedded in these red-clay back roads, maintaining a landscape where the past is not a museum piece but a living, breathing influence on the everyday.

About This Midway Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Midway, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.076373, -85.524417. 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 Midway includes the ZIP code (36861, 36042, 36728), telephone area code (334, 251), county seat of Clarke County (Grove Hill), and school district assignment (Bullock 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.