Riverview Alabama Map

About Riverview, Alabama

Riverview is a locality in Escambia County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 163. The population density is 43.5 people per km². Riverview is located at 31.0613°N, 87.0775°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Riverview is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35404, 36426.

Riverview occupies a low-lying stretch of the Alabama landscape where the Conecuh River carves a serpentine path through thickets of bottomland hardwood. It lies 57.3 miles east-northeast of Spanish Fort, AL (from Spanish Fort, AL: bearing 62°T), and is situated 3.2 miles south-southeast of Brewton. The air here holds a heavy, persistent moisture that clings to the longleaf pines, and the light at dusk settles over the red-clay soil with a bruised, violet intensity. Two miles to the east, the surface of Brantley Lake remains largely undisturbed, reflecting the dense canopy of the surrounding timberland. Within the immediate vicinity, the terrain transitions toward the Escambia National Experimental Forest, where the earth is defined by the slow, deliberate growth of timber and the quiet, persistent encroachment of vegetation upon the State-owned Submerged Lands.

Riverview emerged from the labor of the timber and agricultural industries, which continue to dictate the slow, methodical pace of the local economy. The legacy of these trades is visible in the weathered architecture that lines the outskirts, where the regional history of trade and cultivation remains etched into the very grain of the local lumber. While Sand Mound looms as a distant silhouette on the horizon, the daily life of Riverview is anchored to the immediate rhythm of the riverbanks and the seasonal cycles of the surrounding pecan groves. It is a place where the passage of time is measured not by sudden change, but by the gradual accumulation of silt along the water and the deepening shade of the woods as the afternoon sun retreats.

About This Riverview Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Riverview, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.06126, -87.077531. 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 Riverview includes the ZIP code (35404, 36426), telephone area code (256, 251), county seat of Escambia County (Brewton), and school district assignment (Escambia 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.