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Midway Alabama Map

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.

Interactive Map of Midway, Alabama

How to Use This Midway, Alabama Map

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	Clay 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	Ashland
School District	Bullock County School District

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About Midway, Alabama

Midway is a locality in Clay 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 occupies a quiet expanse of Alabama where the earth is stained a deep, oxidized crimson and the horizon is defined by the steady, unyielding presence of the inland plains. It lies 9.5 miles east-southeast of Sylacauga, AL (from Sylacauga, AL: bearing 108°T), and is situated 15.3 miles north-northwest of Alexander City. Little Hatchet Creek carves a serpentine path through the verdant bottomland, its waters moving with a deliberate, dark gravity that mirrors the slow drift of clouds above the tree line. To the west, the silhouettes of Flat Top Ridge provide a jagged, distant boundary against the sky, while the nearby Hollins Wildlife Management Area preserves a dense, tangled wilderness of longleaf pine and hardwood. The quality of light here during the golden hour is heavy and amber, catching the underside of broad leaves and turning the dust of red-clay roads into a shimmering, suspended haze that seems to hold the day in a state of suspended animation.

Midway holds the weight of a complex inheritance, its character shaped by the slow, seasonal pulse of agriculture and the enduring memories of those who worked the soil long before the modern era. While Griffin Harris Lake sits silently just a few miles away, offering a glassy stillness to the landscape, the local economy remains tethered to the rhythmic demands of the land and the modest commerce of a rural crossroads. The air carries a thick, humid warmth that lingers well into the evening, occasionally broken by the distant, phantom rush of Great Falls echoing from the rugged terrain beyond Horn Valley. Life in Midway proceeds with a quiet, observant intensity, where the passage of time is measured not by the clock, but by the subtle shifting of shadows across the fields and the persistent, low-frequency hum of a region that has learned to value its own slow, measured pace.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Town of Midway Confederate Monument (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 073° E
Wehle Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 3.1 mi, 122° SE
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 3.2 mi, 234° SW
Barbour Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 161° S
Elhew Field Station (State Recreation Area) — 3.9 mi, 133° SE
Wehle Nature Center (Recreation Easement) — 5.0 mi, 130° SE
Barbour County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 8.6 mi, 147° SE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 12.2 mi, 291° W
Civil War Statue (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 162° S
Walter F. George Lake (Recreation Area) — 18.0 mi, 102° E
Lakepoint Resort State Park (State Park) — 24.0 mi, 103° E
Tuskegee National Forest (National Forest) — 24.5 mi, 344° N · 11k acres
Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.6 mi, 102° E · 48 acres
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site (Museum) — 26.5 mi, 337° NW
Beginning of the George Washington Carver Nutrition Trail (Attraction) — 26.6 mi, 336° NW
Blue Springs State Park (State Park) — 27.8 mi, 178° S
Shiloh Church (Monument) — 28.7 mi, 028° NE
Conecuh River Depot (Museum) — 32.7 mi, 238° SW
Pike Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 32.7 mi, 238° SW
Home (Historic Castle / Fort) — 35.6 mi, 034° NE
Founders' Oak (Attraction) — 36.0 mi, 004° N
Cam Newton (Public Artwork) — 36.3 mi, 003° N
Civil War Cannon Lathe (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 004° N
University Seal (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 004° N
Oxbow Meadows Environmental Learning Center (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 39.4 mi, 057° NE
Giant Screen Theater at the National Infantry Museum (Cinema) — 39.6 mi, 057° NE
Golden Park (Stadium) — 40.5 mi, 050° NE
A. J. McClung Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 40.8 mi, 050° NE
National Civil War Naval Museum (Museum) — 40.8 mi, 051° NE
Opelika Community Theatre (Theatre) — 41.0 mi, 014° N

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