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Riverside Alabama Map

Explore Riverside, 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 Riverside, Alabama

How to Use This Riverside, Alabama Map

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

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

Latitude	33.616394
Longitude	-86.204357
Population	2,227
Density	99.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	35907, 35135
Area Code	334, 205, 256
County Seat	Gadsden
School District	Pell City City School District

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About Riverside, Alabama

Riverside is a locality in Etowah County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,227. The population density is 99.2 people per km². Riverside is located at 33.6164°N, 86.2044°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Riverside is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35907, 35135.

Riverside defines its boundaries through the constant, low-slung movement of the Coosa River as it carves a path through the dense, humid woodland of the Alabama interior. It lies 1.5 miles southeast of Rainbow City, AL (from Rainbow City, AL: bearing 135°T), and is situated 5.2 miles south of Gadsden. The terrain rises from the riverbed into the quiet, folded slopes of Hensley Mountain, while the presence of H Neely Henry Lake expands the horizon into a broad, reflective surface that catches the heavy, golden light of the late afternoon. Across the landscape, the reach of State-owned Submerged Lands preserves the wilder, tangled edges of the water’s path, where the thick growth of bottomland hardwood holds the damp, red earth in place against the slow, inevitable pull of the current.

Riverside carries the weight of a long-settled history, where the rhythms of the land have dictated the survival of its people through generations of agrarian labor and industrial change. The economy remains tethered to the movement of goods and the utilization of the river, a quiet persistence that contrasts with the distant, silent height of the terrain toward the Canoe Creek Valley. In the stillness of the morning, the air hangs heavy with the scent of pine and loam, and the life of Riverside settles into a steady, unadorned pulse that moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons rather than the frantic pace of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 0.2 mi, 187° S
Pell City Sports Complex (Local Park) — 5.7 mi, 218° SW
Pell City Recreation Hall (Local Park) — 5.9 mi, 216° SW
Talladega College Entrance Gate (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 157° SE
Talladega College Sign (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 159° S
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 14.0 mi, 149° SE · 395k acres
Janney Furnace (Attraction) — 16.3 mi, 041° NE
Coldwater Mountain (State Recreation Area) — 16.3 mi, 091° E
Chief Chenneby Grave (Monument) — 16.6 mi, 123° SE
Freedom Riders National Monument (National Monument) — 17.0 mi, 086° E · 6 acres
Greyhound Bus Burning Site (Monument) — 17.2 mi, 086° E
Cheaha State Park (State Park) — 18.7 mi, 120° SE
Greyhound Mural (Public Artwork) — 21.7 mi, 082° E
AmStar Stadium Cinema 12 (Cinema) — 21.9 mi, 090° E
Samuel Noble Monument (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 082° E
ACTA Theater (Theatre) — 23.1 mi, 272° W
Trussville Entertainment District (Attraction) — 23.3 mi, 270° W
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 23.5 mi, 125° SE · 7,400 acres
Pulpit Rock Overlook (Viewpoint) — 24.1 mi, 112° E
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.2 mi, 081° E · 18k acres
Trussville Childrens Theater (Theatre) — 25.3 mi, 268° W
Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 29.4 mi, 259° W
Noccalula Falls Petting Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 30.9 mi, 019° N
Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 31.4 mi, 240° SW
Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium (Museum) — 35.3 mi, 253° W
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 35.3 mi, 259° W
Old CCC Ridgeline Campsite ("Unit 2") (Historic Ruins) — 35.3 mi, 238° SW
Old CCC Lakside Campsite ("Unit 1") (Historic Ruins) — 35.4 mi, 238° SW
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 35.5 mi, 063° NE · 8,947 acres
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 60.2 mi, 298° NW · 182k acres

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