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Penton Alabama Map

Explore Penton, 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 Penton, Alabama

How to Use This Penton, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	33.006512
Longitude	-85.465506
Population	163
Density	6.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	36862
Area Code	251
County Seat	LaFayette
School District	Chambers County School District

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About Penton, Alabama

Penton is a locality in Chambers County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 163. The population density is 6.9 people per km². Penton is located at 33.0065°N, 85.4655°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 36862.

Penton occupies a quiet expanse of Alabama where the earth is stained a deep, oxidized red and the air carries the heavy, humid weight of the inland South. It lies 21.1 miles northwest of Valley, AL (from Valley, AL: bearing 308°T), and is situated 8.3 miles north-northwest of La Fayette. Sandy Creek cuts through the terrain here, its channel carving a persistent, winding path through the dense thickets of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwoods that define the local horizon. To the north, the silhouette of Buck Mountain rises distantly against the sky, a faint, jagged reminder of the broader topography that lies beyond the immediate reach of the fields. During the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, golden hue, catching the dust stirred up by tires on the rural lanes and illuminating the subtle, slow-drifting patterns of Spanish moss that cling to the older oaks. Seven miles away, the quiet waters of White Lake hold the reflection of the clouds in a stillness that seems to suspend the passage of the hours.

Penton carries the weight of a long agrarian tradition, its economy rooted in the cycles of peach and pecan harvests that have sustained the families here for generations. The legacy of the land is measured in the quiet industry of the orchards and the persistent memory of the civil rights movement, which lingers in the stories told on wide, shaded porches. Six miles to the east, the State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a portion of the wilder, untamed landscape, keeping the region’s natural character intact against the slow encroachment of modernity. Life in Penton follows the deliberate, unforced tempo of the seasons, where the primary concerns remain the health of the crops and the maintenance of the red-clay roads that connect these scattered homesteads. It is a place where the work is honest and the evenings settle in with a profound, pervasive silence, leaving little room for the intrusions of the outside world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 5.7 mi, 306° NW
West Point Lake (Recreation Area) — 11.7 mi, 078° E
Chambers County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.2 mi, 152° SE
West Point Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 14.5 mi, 077° E
Valley Monument Co. (Monument) — 18.7 mi, 125° SE
Blanton Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 24.2 mi, 128° SE
Callaway Auditorium (Theatre) — 24.4 mi, 086° E
Callaway Memorial Tower (Monument) — 24.8 mi, 087° E
Horace King 1807-1885 (Monument) — 25.1 mi, 086° E
Yellow Umbrella (Public Artwork) — 25.2 mi, 169° S
Opelika Community Theatre (Theatre) — 25.5 mi, 165° S
Bell UH-1 (Attraction) — 26.9 mi, 323° NW
University Seal (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 182° S
Civil War Cannon Lathe (Attraction) — 27.8 mi, 182° S
Wind Creek State Park (State Park) — 27.9 mi, 250° W
Bush Head Shoals State Park (State Park) — 28.3 mi, 047° NE
Founders' Oak (Attraction) — 28.4 mi, 182° S
Heard County Historical Center and Museum (Museum) — 28.4 mi, 048° NE
Catie Radney's Studio (Arts Centre) — 28.6 mi, 261° W
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 32.5 mi, 320° NW · 395k acres
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 32.7 mi, 320° NW · 7,400 acres
Tuskegee National Forest (National Forest) — 34.7 mi, 189° S · 11k acres
Chipeley Historical Center (Museum) — 36.8 mi, 105° E
Restaurant Overlook (Viewpoint) — 38.2 mi, 329° NW
Home (Historic Castle / Fort) — 38.4 mi, 155° SE
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site (Museum) — 42.3 mi, 199° S
Blue Door Gallery (Gallery) — 45.6 mi, 030° NE
Legacy Exhibit (Museum) — 46.0 mi, 101° E
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.8 mi, 340° N · 18k acres
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 57.4 mi, 350° N · 8,947 acres

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