Redstone Arsenal Alabama Map

About Redstone Arsenal, Alabama

Redstone Arsenal is a locality in Madison County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 837. The population density is 14.8 people per km². Redstone Arsenal is located at 34.6878°N, 86.6612°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 35808.

Redstone Arsenal occupies a sprawling expanse of North Alabama where the humid air hangs heavy and still, pressing against the broad leaves of bottomland hardwoods. It lies 4.4 miles west-southwest of Huntsville, AL (from Huntsville, AL: bearing 237°T), and is situated 5.5 miles east of Madison. The terrain here is defined by a deep, iron-rich earth, where the drainage of McDonald Creek carves a quiet path through the landscape toward the Tennessee River valley. To the north, the distant outline of Chunn Hill provides a steady, blue-gray anchor to the horizon, while the local topography remains largely shaped by the interplay of limestone and dense, persistent vegetation. Near the Fox Health Center Basketball Court, the light at dusk takes on a bruised, violet quality, casting long shadows that seem to stretch across the open fields and into the surrounding thickets of pine.

Redstone Arsenal serves as a profound center of gravity for aerospace and missile technology, its identity forged through decades of intense scientific inquiry and defense development. The economy here functions with a singular, disciplined focus, drawing researchers and engineers who navigate a world of classified precision far removed from the agrarian echoes of the region’s past. Life within these boundaries moves with the deliberate pace of a place preoccupied by the mechanics of the future, yet it remains tethered to the physical reality of the land, from the quiet waters of Lady Ann Lake to the persistence of the red-clay soil. Even within this environment of rigorous industry, the simple geometry of the Fox Health Center Basketball Court remains a focal point for the daily lives of those who work under the quiet watch of the surrounding hills, tethered by a shared sense of purpose.

About This Redstone Arsenal Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. Coordinates: 34.687763, -86.661172. 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 Redstone Arsenal includes the ZIP code (35808), telephone area code (256), county seat of Madison County (Huntsville), and school district assignment (Madison 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.