Munford Alabama Map

About Munford, Alabama

Munford is a locality in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,351. The population density is 203.7 people per km². Munford is located at 33.5298°N, 85.9508°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Munford is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36268.

Munford emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet gathering of homes and timbered lots where the air retains the heavy, humid weight of the inland South. It lies 8.9 miles southwest of Oxford, AL (from Oxford, AL: bearing 229°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south-southwest of West End-Cobb Town. The landscape is defined by the steady, unassuming presence of Salt Creek, which carves a path through the brush just a mile away, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Kentuck Mountain anchors the horizon to the east. Sunlight here has a way of lingering, catching the needles of longleaf pines and turning the dust of back roads into a fine, copper-colored haze before the shadows lengthen toward Grants Pond. Life moves in accordance with the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons, where the cool dampness of the woods often drifts down from the nearby Talladega National Forest to settle over the low-lying fields.

Munford carries the quiet weight of an economy once rooted in the sawmills and the surrounding timber harvest, industries that shaped the settlement patterns of the surrounding Horse Creek Valley long ago. Local families still look toward the thick, protected canopy of the Talladega National Forest, which acts as a vast, green buffer just two miles from the center, preserving a sense of isolation that feels increasingly rare. Visitors might track the sound of moving water to Salt Creek Falls, a modest but persistent feature that marks the terrain with a constant, rhythmic splashing against the limestone. The local character is forged by this geography, a place where the memory of older, agrarian rhythms persists in the quiet upkeep of the land, far removed from the frantic pace of the wider world.

About This Munford Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Munford, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.529828, -85.950801. 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 Munford includes the ZIP code (36268), telephone area code (334), county seat of Talladega County (Talladega), and school district assignment (Talladega 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.