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Piedmont Alabama Map

Explore Piedmont, 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 Piedmont, Alabama

How to Use This Piedmont, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	33.927557
Longitude	-85.615267
Population	4,787
Density	188.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	35801, 36272
Area Code	256, 334
County Seat	Anniston
School District	Piedmont City School District

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About Piedmont, Alabama

Piedmont is a locality in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,787. The population density is 188.1 people per km². Piedmont is located at 33.9276°N, 85.6153°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Piedmont is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35801, 36272.

Piedmont emerges from a landscape defined by the heavy, humid stillness of the deep interior, where the earth gives way to the rugged rise of Dugger Mountain. It lies 11.5 miles northeast of Jacksonville, AL (from Jacksonville, AL: bearing 48°T), and is situated 18.5 miles east of Glencoe. Nances Creek carves a quiet, persistent path through the lowlands, its waters reflecting the shifting gray-green canopy of longleaf pine and dense bottomland hardwoods that define the local horizon. Light here possesses a particular, thick quality at dusk, turning the red-clay soil into a deep, bruised copper that seems to hold the warmth of the sun long after it has dipped behind the ridge. Only three miles away, the surface of Lake Haven remains glassy and undisturbed, a silent mirror to the expansive sky, while the proximity of Park offers a sanctuary of untamed growth where the silence is broken only by the movement of wind through the high timber.

Piedmont carries the weight of a history rooted in the industry of the textile mills, which once hummed with a kinetic energy that dictated the tempo of daily life. Though the economic rhythm has shifted, the character of the place remains tethered to the slow, deliberate pace of the interior plains, far removed from the frantic reach of the distant coast. Beyond the immediate reach of the streets, the terrain deepens toward the distant reaches of Lanie Hollow, where the land holds its own quiet secrets of settlement and endurance. Life in Piedmont moves with a steady, unforced gravity, marked by the changing seasons of the pine woods and the enduring presence of the ridges that define its boundaries, grounding the people in a geography that feels both permanent and profoundly solitary.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Veterans Memorial Park (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 215° SW
Park (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 098° E
Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 0.9 mi, 250° W
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 2.2 mi, 199° S · 395k acres
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 2.4 mi, 143° SE · 8,947 acres
Rose Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 6.2 mi, 230° SW · 161 acres
Carlton Ward Theater (Theatre) — 10.7 mi, 231° SW
MAJ Dwayne Williams Memorial (Monument) — 11.7 mi, 225° SW
John Pelham Monument (Monument) — 11.8 mi, 225° SW
Indian Mountain Complex (State Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 058° NE
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 12.2 mi, 349° N
Choccolocco Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.5 mi, 201° S
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.9 mi, 207° SW · 18k acres
Samuel Noble Monument (Monument) — 22.2 mi, 213° SW
Greyhound Mural (Public Artwork) — 22.4 mi, 214° SW
Noccalula Falls (Attraction) — 24.6 mi, 289° W
Fat Man's Squeeze (Attraction) — 24.6 mi, 288° W
AmStar Stadium Cinema 12 (Cinema) — 24.8 mi, 209° SW
Little River Canyon National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 24.8 mi, 351° N · 11k acres
Janney Furnace Civil War and Native American Museum and Interpritive Center (Museum) — 24.9 mi, 249° W
Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 25.8 mi, 192° S
Chad Hawkins Stadium (Stadium) — 26.9 mi, 327° NW
Hightower Falls Event Venue (Attraction) — 27.0 mi, 089° E
Mushroom Rock (Attraction) — 30.9 mi, 358° N
Barron Stadium (Stadium) — 33.9 mi, 048° NE
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 34.3 mi, 198° S · 7,400 acres
Martha Berry Museum and Art Gallery (Museum) — 34.6 mi, 046° NE
Chieftains Museum (Museum) — 35.1 mi, 046° NE
Alabama Fan Club and Museum (Museum) — 35.5 mi, 349° N
Dekalb Theatre (Theatre) — 36.1 mi, 350° N

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