Explore Midway, 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 Midway, 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 Midway.
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 | Midway |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Clarke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.076373 |
| Longitude | -85.524417 |
| Population | 421 |
| Density | 49.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 36861, 36042, 36728, 36053 |
| Area Code | 334, 251 |
| County Seat | Grove Hill |
| School District | Bullock County School District |
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.
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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).
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. |