Needham Alabama Map

About Needham, Alabama

Needham is a locality in Choctaw County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 73. The population density is 49.3 people per km². Needham is located at 31.9879°N, 88.3367°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Needham is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36915.

Needham emerges from the damp, red-clay earth of the Alabama interior, where the persistent current of Bogueloosa Creek carves a winding path through the dense, tangled thickets of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood. It lies 33.7 miles southeast of Meridian, MS (from Meridian, MS: bearing 140°T), and is situated 9.7 miles southwest of Butler. Six miles to the east, the jagged, shadowed profile of Sickle Ridge breaks the horizon, anchoring a landscape that remains quiet under the weight of humid, heavy air. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, casting long, ochre shadows across the unpaved back roads that bleed into the surrounding forest. Beyond the immediate canopy, Lake Meadow holds the reflection of the sky in its still, dark basin, providing a reprieve from the dense, suffocating greenery that defines the local horizon.

Needham preserves a rhythm dictated by the land’s stubborn refusal to yield entirely to the pressures of the modern age, maintaining an economy deeply rooted in the slow cultivation of timber and the seasonal harvest of pecans. The legacy of the region lingers in the quietude of its crossroads, where the collective memory of the populace resides in the weathered wood of older structures and the deep, rich soil that has sustained generations. Travelers passing through may find the pace of life dictated by the rise and fall of the sun rather than the ticking of a clock, a stillness that is only occasionally broken by the distant movement of machinery. While the State-owned Submerged Lands remain a distant sanctuary thirteen miles away, the character of Needham itself is defined by this intimate proximity to the creek, the ridge, and the persistent, slow-moving pulse of the rural South.

About This Needham Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Needham, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.987927, -88.336691. 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 Needham includes the ZIP code (36915), telephone area code (205, 251, 256, 334, 938), county seat of Choctaw County (Butler), and school district assignment (Choctaw 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.