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Panola Alabama Map

Explore Panola, 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 Panola, Alabama

How to Use This Panola, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	32.946819
Longitude	-88.262266
Population	71
Density	38.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	36046, 35477
Area Code	334, 251, 256
County Seat	Luverne
School District	Sumter County School District

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.6 mi, 250° W
Shark Tooth Creek (Attraction) — 10.5 mi, 057° NE
Old Bethany Cemetary (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 048° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 21.0 mi, 304° NW
Civil Rights Marker (Monument) — 23.5 mi, 109° E
UWA Amphitheater (Theatre) — 24.7 mi, 170° S
Sipsey River Complex (State Conservation Area) — 29.2 mi, 060° NE
Private (State Conservation Area) — 30.9 mi, 327° NW
Wildcat Stadium (Stadium) — 31.7 mi, 183° S
Lake Lowndes State Park (State Park) — 32.8 mi, 356° N
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.1 mi, 310° NW · 97k acres
Tanglewood - University of Alabama's J. Nicholene Bishop Biological Station (Nature Reserve) — 34.8 mi, 101° E
Mound O (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 083° E
Mound N (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 084° E
Mound P (Attraction) — 36.6 mi, 083° E
Burial Mound (Viewpoint) — 36.6 mi, 083° E
M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial Area (State Recreation Area) — 37.0 mi, 123° SE
Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge.Proposed Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 38.0 mi, 308° NW · 1,126 acres
Warhouse Drive-In (Cinema) — 38.2 mi, 142° SE
Warhouse Performing Arts Center (Cinema) — 38.7 mi, 140° SE
Columbus Arts Council (Arts Centre) — 39.1 mi, 346° N
Nanih Waiya (Historic Ruins) — 39.8 mi, 268° W
Lake Lurleen State Park (State Park) — 40.4 mi, 054° NE
Firefighter (Monument) — 41.9 mi, 073° E
Tombigbee National Forest (National Forest) — 42.2 mi, 299° NW · 67k acres
Engle Gallery (Gallery) — 42.2 mi, 113° SE
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 42.9 mi, 090° E · 395k acres
Old Tavern (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 065° NE
Kentuck Museum (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 062° NE
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 68.4 mi, 083° E · 8,383 acres

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