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Oakman Alabama Map

Explore Oakman, 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 Oakman, Alabama

How to Use This Oakman, Alabama Map

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

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	Oakman
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Walker County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.713443
Longitude	-87.388616
Population	771
Density	96.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	35579
Area Code	205
County Seat	Jasper
School District	Walker County School District

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About Oakman, Alabama

Oakman is a locality in Walker County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 771. The population density is 96.6 people per km². Oakman is located at 33.7134°N, 87.3886°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Oakman is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35579.

Oakman holds a quiet vigil over the red-clay corridors of Walker County, where the landscape is defined by the persistent, winding presence of Cane Creek. It lies 10.3 miles southwest of Jasper, AL (from Jasper, AL: bearing 218°T), and is situated 17.2 miles west of Dora. The terrain here rises and falls in deliberate, heavy rhythms, caught between the sheltered depths of Porter Hollow and the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Blue Ridge that sharpen against the horizon during the crisp clarity of winter. Sunlight in Oakman has a way of thickening in the afternoon, casting long, amber shadows across the dense stands of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood that define the perimeter of the Wolf Creek Community Hunting Area. Moisture hangs in the air, a humid weight that clings to the skin and encourages the slow, deep growth of the forest, while the earth itself feels ancient, compressed by the weight of the dark, mineral-rich soil that blankets the region.

Industrial legacies remain etched into the texture of Oakman, a place where the extraction of coal once dictated the pulse of the local economy and shaped the very contour of the surrounding geography. Even now, the memory of those subterranean shifts lingers, contrasting with the stillness of the nearby Strip Mining Impoundment Number 1, which offers a mirror to the sky in a landscape otherwise dominated by the rugged, unyielding geometry of the hills. The pace of life here is measured by the transition of the seasons and the simple movement of commerce along the rural arteries that connect the scattered households. It is a locality that demands a patient eye, where the beauty is not found in grand vistas, but in the way the twilight settles over the timbered slopes, turning the gray, weathered wood of old structures into a silvered reflection of the darkening sky.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wolf Creek Community Hunting Area (Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 359° N
Mulberry Fork Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 178° S
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 9.3 mi, 333° NW
Walker County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 10.6 mi, 058° NE
April 27, 2011 Tornado memeorial (Monument) — 12.3 mi, 075° E
Minkin Fossil Site (State Conservation Area) — 14.3 mi, 063° NE
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 19.7 mi, 008° N · 182k acres
Oak Grove Football Stadium (Stadium) — 21.5 mi, 142° SE
Oak Grove Softball Field (Stadium) — 21.6 mi, 142° SE
Winston County Confederate Monument (Monument) — 29.0 mi, 335° NW
Old Lock 14 (Viewpoint) — 29.8 mi, 182° S
Lake Lurleen State Park (State Park) — 32.0 mi, 210° SW
Sipsey Fork West Fork, Alabama Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 33.0 mi, 004° N · 10k acres
Kentuck Museum (Museum) — 34.7 mi, 200° S
War Memorial (Monument) — 35.0 mi, 198° S
Running Minerva (Public Artwork) — 35.2 mi, 195° S
Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Theatre (Theatre) — 35.6 mi, 111° E
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 35.7 mi, 111° E
Allen Bales Theatre (Theatre) — 35.8 mi, 195° S
Alabama Museum of Natural History (Museum) — 35.8 mi, 195° S
Virginia Shirley Studio-Gallery (Gallery) — 35.9 mi, 198° S
Queen City Fountain (Historic Ruins) — 35.9 mi, 196° S
Rainbow LED Tunnel (Attraction) — 36.0 mi, 113° SE
Bama Belle (Attraction) — 36.1 mi, 197° S
Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 36.1 mi, 112° E
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 36.2 mi, 112° E
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 39.3 mi, 358° N · 26k acres
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.1 mi, 156° SE · 8,383 acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 46.5 mi, 184° S · 395k acres
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 58.9 mi, 024° NE · 35k acres

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