Explore New Hope, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for New Hope, 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 New Hope.
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 | New Hope |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Madison County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 34.537972 |
| Longitude | -86.412372 |
| Population | 2,889 |
| Density | 128.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 36278, 36346, 35242, 35760 |
| Area Code | 205, 256 |
| County Seat | Huntsville |
| School District | Madison County School District |
New Hope emerges from the humid, red-clay expanse of the northern Alabama landscape as a quiet intersection of open fields and dense hardwood timber. It lies 17.2 miles southeast of Huntsville, AL (from Huntsville, AL: bearing 141°T), and is situated 5.1 miles southeast of Owens Cross Roads. The silhouette of Hawkins Mountain rises in the distance, casting long, softening shadows over the fields during the humid hours of the late afternoon, while the nearby Blue Spring Branch cuts a thin, cool vein through the soil. The light here takes on a heavy, golden quality at dusk, filtering through the pines and illuminating the thick, fertile earth that defines the basin of Click Hollow to the south. Residents often gather at the New Hope Recreation Center, where the open grounds provide a space for the rhythmic, steady pace of local life to unfold against the backdrop of the inland woods.
History in New Hope remains tied to the slow persistence of agricultural tradition, where the soil has long supported the quiet labor of generations. While the economy has shifted with the changing requirements of the region, the proximity of Wheeler Lake provides a constant, sprawling presence that influences the humidity and the character of the morning air. The local culture is defined by a deep, unspoken familiarity with the land, where the memory of earlier farming cycles still lingers in the layout of the roads and the spacing of the homesteads. Life moves with an observant stillness, reflecting a community that finds its identity in the steady, quiet endurance of the Alabama interior.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Hope, Alabama. Coordinates: 34.537972, -86.412372. 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 New Hope includes the ZIP code (36278, 36346, 35242), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Madison County (Huntsville), and school district assignment (Madison 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |