Midway Alabama Map

About Midway, Alabama

Midway is a locality in Tallapoosa 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 horizon is defined by the steady, unyielding presence of red-clay earth and dense corridors of longleaf pine. It lies 6.3 miles southeast of Alexander City, AL (from Alexander City, AL: bearing 129°T), and is situated 7.2 miles west-northwest of Dadeville. The landscape bears the marks of a slow, deliberate erosion, with the drainage of Gin House Branch carving subtle indentations into the soil barely a mile from the center of the settlement. To the west, the distant outline of Hillabee Ridge provides a faint, serrated edge against the sky, while the proximity of Martin Lake introduces a stillness to the air, drawing moisture that clings to the hardwoods during the humid afternoons. Shadows stretch long and thin across the fields as the sun dips, casting a copper glow over the pines that makes the transition into dusk feel heavy and profound.

Midway maintains a character forged by the agrarian cycles of the region, where the economy has historically drawn its strength from the cycles of timber and the cultivation of the land. Economic life here remains tied to the quiet productivity of the soil, with the nearby State-owned Submerged Lands acting as a guardian of the natural environment, preserving the integrity of the local watershed. The legacy of the area is not merely in the structures that remain, but in the enduring memory of those who worked these fields, their lives woven into the daily movement of the community. Life in Midway moves with the deliberate pace of a season, where the primary concerns are the health of the timber, the quality of the harvest, and the quiet preservation of a way of life that values the stillness of the woods over the clamor of the modern world.

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 Tallapoosa County (Dadeville), 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.