Explore Perdido Beach, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Perdido Beach, 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 Perdido Beach.
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 | Perdido Beach |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Baldwin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 30.353879 |
| Longitude | -87.5048 |
| Population | 555 |
| Density | 180.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 36530 |
| Area Code | 251 |
| County Seat | Bay Minette |
| School District | Baldwin County School District |
Perdido Beach maintains a quiet equilibrium where the humid air of the Gulf of Mexico presses against the shoreline, softening the edges of the horizon until the sky and water seem to dissolve into a singular, pale gray expanse. It lies 11.6 miles east-southeast of Foley, AL (from Foley, AL: bearing 113°T), and is situated 5.2 miles northeast of Orange Beach. The landscape is defined by the low, flat tension of the coast, where the vegetation consists of resilient grasses and the occasional deep green of longleaf pine standing against the salt-heavy breeze. At the Bay Avenue Public Access, the ground meets the tide with a subtle, shifting grace, and one might notice how the light at dusk turns the water into a sheet of hammered silver, illuminating the distant, hazy silhouette of Ono Island. Palmetto Creek snakes through the nearby lowlands with a slow, deliberate gravity, its dark waters carrying the quiet history of the basin toward the open reach of the gulf.
Perdido Beach has evolved from its early days as a secluded maritime outpost into a place defined by the steady, measured pace of those who favor the solitude of the salt marsh over the clamor of more crowded shores. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the water and the land, reflecting a heritage of modest enterprise that values the clarity of the seasons and the endurance of the local timber and maritime trades. While the bustle of the modern world feels miles away, the memory of the region lingers in the scent of pine needles warming on the red-clay paths and the distant, rhythmic pulse of the tide. Visitors seeking a reprieve from the interior find that the distance to Shelby Lakes, located ten miles away, offers a shift from the brine of the coast to the still, freshwater stillness of the inland woods, completing the sensory map of a life lived between the creek and the gulf.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Perdido Beach, Alabama. Coordinates: 30.353879, -87.5048. 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 Perdido Beach includes the ZIP code (36530), telephone area code (251), county seat of Baldwin County (Bay Minette), and school district assignment (Baldwin County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |