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Pennington Alabama Map

Explore Pennington, 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 Pennington, Alabama

How to Use This Pennington, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	32.200612
Longitude	-88.037572
Population	329
Density	24.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	36916
Area Code	205, 251, 256, 334, 938
County Seat	Butler
School District	Choctaw County School District

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About Pennington, Alabama

Pennington is a locality in Choctaw County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 329. The population density is 24.4 people per km². Pennington is located at 32.2006°N, 88.0376°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pennington is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36916.

Pennington occupies a quiet expanse of Alabama where the red-clay earth holds the warmth of the sun long after the light begins to fail. It lies 62.0 miles west-southwest of Selma, AL (from Selma, AL: bearing 257°T), and is situated 4.1 miles southeast of Indian Springs. Morgan Branch traces a thin, winding path through the landscape, its waters carving a subtle rhythm through the dense bottomland hardwoods that define the local terrain. While the horizon remains flat and expansive, the distant silhouette of Potato Ridge marks the outer edge of the world, a faint, serrated line against the pale sky. Only a few miles away, the quiet stillness of Coffeeville Lake offers a reflective surface for the heavy, humid air, and the nearby State-owned Submerged Lands provide a sanctuary for the native pines that stand as sentinels over the damp soil.

Pennington emerged from the necessity of the land, its economy long tethered to the timber and paper industries that draw strength from the surrounding forests. The daily pace moves with a deliberate gravity, shaped by the cycles of the mill and the seasonal shift of the woods. History here is felt in the architecture of the older frame houses and the way the afternoon shadows lengthen across the gravel roads, marking time in a place that prefers memory to noise. Life in Pennington revolves around the steady, industrious work of the people who call this stretch of inland Alabama home, their days punctuated by the distant drone of machinery and the persistent, quiet growth of the pines that crowd the edges of the town.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.5 mi, 086° E
Gaston Parcel (State Conservation Area) — 14.9 mi, 314° NW
Chickasaw State Park (State Park) — 17.7 mi, 053° NE
Scotch Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 21.2 mi, 166° S
Warhouse Drive-In (Cinema) — 23.6 mi, 026° NE
David K. Nelson (Demopolis) Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 23.8 mi, 020° N
Demopolis Parks & Recreation Park (Local Recreation) — 24.1 mi, 036° NE
Warhouse Performing Arts Center (Cinema) — 24.9 mi, 028° NE
Wildcat Stadium (Stadium) — 24.9 mi, 323° NW
Simmons-Wright1884 Cafe (Attraction) — 28.0 mi, 304° NW
UWA Amphitheater (Theatre) — 28.6 mi, 342° N
Bladon Springs State Park (State Park) — 32.8 mi, 195° S
M. Barnett Lawley Forever Wild Field Trial Area (State Recreation Area) — 35.3 mi, 033° NE
Millers Ferry Lock Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 36.6 mi, 097° E
Clarke County Museum (Museum) — 37.2 mi, 156° SE
World War I Monument (1924) (Monument) — 37.2 mi, 156° SE
Mississippi Children's Museum (Museum) — 39.9 mi, 286° W
Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum (Museum) — 40.1 mi, 287° W
MSU Riley Center (Theatre) — 40.3 mi, 286° W
Hallie Ward Interiors ft Queen City Art Gallery (Gallery) — 40.4 mi, 287° W
Key Brothers Aviation Museum (Museum) — 42.4 mi, 283° W
Engle Gallery (Gallery) — 43.3 mi, 036° NE
Old Saint Stephens Archaeological Site (Historic Ruins) — 44.6 mi, 180° S
Civil Rights Marker (Monument) — 44.8 mi, 012° N
Shubuta Red Water Artesian Well (Attraction) — 45.2 mi, 239° SW
Confederate Monument (Monument) — 45.8 mi, 108° E
Tanglewood - University of Alabama's J. Nicholene Bishop Biological Station (Nature Reserve) — 49.8 mi, 025° NE
Old Cahawba Prairie Tract (State Recreation Area) — 51.3 mi, 082° E
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 56.1 mi, 032° NE · 395k acres
De Soto National Forest (National Forest) — 59.0 mi, 218° SW · 532k acres

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