Peterman Alabama Map

About Peterman, Alabama

Peterman is a locality in Houston County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 87. The population density is 79.4 people per km². Peterman is located at 31.5837°N, 87.2630°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 36305, 36471.

Peterman occupies a quiet expanse of red-clay earth where the land shifts slowly between dense thickets of longleaf pine and the open, sun-baked geometry of agricultural fields. It lies 5.5 miles west-southwest of Dothan, AL (from Dothan, AL: bearing 253°T), and is situated 2.5 miles north-northwest of Taylor. Pinhook Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the landscape, its waters often stained dark with the minerals of the region as it slips past low-lying bottomland hardwoods. The air here holds a consistent, heavy warmth that seems to settle into the soil, particularly as the light softens in the late afternoon, casting long, bruised-purple shadows across the fallow ground. Only a mile away, the quiet boundaries of Dothan Trail Park offer a reprieve of managed greenery, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Balcom Hill marks the horizon sixteen miles to the north.

Peterman sustains itself through the steady, quiet labor of the land, defined by the seasonal cycles of timber and the cultivation of pecans that have shaped the local economy for generations. The history of the area is written in the depth of the red clay and the enduring patterns of rural life, where the pace is dictated more by the ripening of a crop or the rising of a creek than by the urgency of the outside world. Residents move with a practiced familiarity, acknowledging a shared heritage that remains tethered to the slow growth of the forest and the persistent, unhurried rhythm of the fields. Even the stillness at Open Pond, fourteen miles distant, reflects the same patient character found in the center of Peterman, where the quietude of the southern interior remains the primary measure of the day.

About This Peterman Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Peterman, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.583669, -87.263042. 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 Peterman includes the ZIP code (36305, 36471), telephone area code (334, 251), county seat of Houston County (Dothan), and school district assignment (Monroe 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.