Panola Alabama Map

About Panola, Alabama

Panola is a locality in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 71. The population density is 38.2 people per km². Panola is located at 32.9468°N, 88.2623°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 36046, 35477.

Panola holds the quiet, heavy stillness of the Black Belt, where the earth is stained a deep, iron-rich red and the summer air clings to the skin like damp wool. It lies 27.0 miles west-northwest of Troy, AL (from Troy, AL: bearing 295°T), and is situated 16.6 miles northeast of Greenville. Burgony Creek carves a slow, meandering path through the low-lying terrain, its banks choked with the tangled roots of bottomland hardwoods and the persistent, gray drift of Spanish moss. Four miles to the east, the rise of Mount Carmel interrupts the flat horizon, a modest prominence that anchors the view against the vast, open fields. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, turning the dust kicked up from the back roads into a shimmering, amber haze that settles over the longleaf pines until the land seems to hold its breath.

Panola retains the skeletal architecture of an older agrarian economy, where the remnants of cotton gins and weathered storefronts speak to a time when the soil dictated every pulse of commerce. Local life remains tethered to the slow cycle of the seasons, far removed from the bustle of the distant cities, with the nearest recreation found in the quiet stretches of Beeland Park or the glassy, secluded surface of Sellers Lake. The history of the region is written in the silence of these fields, a weight that persists in the architecture and the slow, deliberate pace of the people who work the land. Even as the modern world encroaches, the rhythm of Panola remains defined by the heat of the afternoon and the long, cooling shadows that stretch toward the creek, grounding the spirit in a landscape that neither forgets nor forgives the passage of time.

About This Panola Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Panola, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.946819, -88.262266. 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 Panola includes the ZIP code (36046, 35477), telephone area code (334, 251, 256), county seat of Crenshaw County (Luverne), and school district assignment (Sumter 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.