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Mulga Alabama Map

Explore Mulga, 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 Mulga, Alabama

How to Use This Mulga, Alabama Map

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

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.

CityMulga
StateAlabama (AL)
CountyJefferson County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude33.549829
Longitude-86.974161
Population784
Density349.5 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code35118
Area Code205, 256
County SeatBirmingham
School DistrictJefferson County School District

About Mulga, Alabama

Mulga is a locality in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 784. The population density is 349.5 people per km². Mulga is located at 33.5498°N, 86.9742°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Mulga is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35118.

Mulga occupies a quiet reach of the landscape where the steady, dark pulse of Camp Branch defines the local drainage, carving its way through the dense, red-clay terrain. It lies 6.9 miles north of Hueytown, AL (from Hueytown, AL: bearing 11°T), and is situated 4.7 miles west-southwest of Forestdale. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness that clings to the bottomland hardwoods and longleaf pines, while the light at dusk settles in a bruised, amber glow over the water of Bayview Lake. A few miles to the west, the subtle rise of Irish Hill breaks the horizon, providing a silent, earthen anchor to the surrounding expanse. Beyond the nearby boundaries of Unknown Park, the land dips into the shadowed folds of Hanty Hollow, where the earth feels ancient and deeply rooted, indifferent to the passage of a restless world.

Mulga retains the quiet character of a place shaped by the industry of the earth, where the remnants of a coal-mining heritage still echo in the layout of the streets and the collective memory of the residents. The economy, once tied firmly to the extraction of deep-seated resources, has transitioned into a slower, more deliberate pace, favoring the simple maintenance of community life over the clamor of former decades. To the north, the proximity of the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest serves as a reminder of the region’s enduring connection to the timber and silviculture that once dominated this interior landscape. Life in Mulga moves with a rhythmic, unforced gravity, marked by the soft rustle of leaves in the humid afternoons and the way the shadows lengthen across the porch steps as the day’s work concludes.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 009° N
  • State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.3 mi, 097° E
  • Adams Park (Local Park) — 2.9 mi, 356° N
  • Pleasant Grove Athletic Complex (Local Recreation) — 3.5 mi, 186° S
  • Pleasant Grove Softball Park (Local Recreation) — 4.2 mi, 181° S
  • Ishkooda Overlook (Viewpoint) — 9.1 mi, 140° SE
  • Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Theatre (Theatre) — 9.4 mi, 100° E
  • Legacy Arena (Stadium) — 9.5 mi, 101° E
  • MESH Collective Art (Public Artwork) — 9.6 mi, 138° SE
  • Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 9.6 mi, 100° E
  • Steelworker (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 102° E
  • Rainbow LED Tunnel (Attraction) — 9.7 mi, 107° E
  • Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 9.9 mi, 104° E
  • Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 103° E
  • Heaviest Corner on Earth (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 104° E
  • Alys Stephens Center (Theatre) — 10.2 mi, 111° E
  • The Storyteller (Monument) — 10.8 mi, 108° E
  • Birmingham Premiere LUX Ciné GSX & Pizza Pub (Cinema) — 11.1 mi, 134° SE
  • Oak Grove Football Stadium (Stadium) — 11.9 mi, 242° SW
  • Watercress Darter National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 11.9 mi, 177° S · 48 acres
  • Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 12.0 mi, 120° SE
  • Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 118° SE
  • Mulberry Fork Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 12.9 mi, 271° W
  • Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 15.5 mi, 093° E
  • Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 18.9 mi, 144° SE
  • Old CCC Lakside Campsite ("Unit 1") (Historic Ruins) — 20.1 mi, 134° SE
  • Rickwood Caverns State Park (State Park) — 23.1 mi, 015° N
  • Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.2 mi, 189° S · 8,383 acres
  • William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 34.1 mi, 345° N · 182k acres
  • Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 40.9 mi, 205° SW · 395k acres

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About This Mulga Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mulga, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.549829, -86.974161. 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 Mulga includes the ZIP code (35118), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Jefferson County (Birmingham), and school district assignment (Jefferson 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.