Explore Providence, 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 Providence, 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 Providence.
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 | Providence |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Randolph County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.342386 |
| Longitude | -87.776115 |
| Population | 167 |
| Density | 37.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 35160, 36748, 35579 |
| Area Code | 205, 334 |
| County Seat | Wedowee |
| School District | Linden City School District |
Providence holds the stillness of the deep interior, where the red-clay earth yields to the quiet persistent growth of longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood. It lies 30.5 miles east-southeast of Oxford, AL (from Oxford, AL: bearing 119°T), and is situated 17.1 miles north of Roanoke. The landscape surrounding Providence unfolds in subtle, unassuming slopes that rise toward the distant silhouette of Blackjack Mountain, seven miles away. Cutnose Creek traces a narrow, shaded path just a mile from the center, its banks thick with the tangled greenery that defines this humid inland terrain. Nearby, the State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a quiet, untamed corridor of vegetation, while Barton Lake rests seven miles distant, a placid basin reflecting the heavy, golden light that settles over the fields as the afternoon wanes.
Providence bears the quiet marks of a long agrarian history, where the labor of generations has been tied to the rhythm of peach and pecan harvests. The economy remains tethered to this soil, a steady and modest enterprise that favors the patient cultivation of the land over the frantic pace of industrial expansion. Life in Providence moves with the slow, deliberate gravity of a place that understands its own boundaries, marked by the memory of civil-rights struggles that shaped the local character and the persistent, unadorned beauty of the Alabama woods. Here, the air carries the scent of damp earth and pine needles, grounding the observer in a reality that feels both fragile and enduring, far removed from the clamor of the wider world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Providence, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.342386, -87.776115. 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 Providence includes the ZIP code (35160, 36748, 35579), telephone area code (205, 334), county seat of Randolph County (Wedowee), and school district assignment (Linden City 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. |