Rockford Alabama Map

About Rockford, Alabama

Rockford is a locality in Coosa County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 349. The population density is 40.7 people per km². Rockford is located at 32.8969°N, 86.2083°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rockford is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35136.

Rockford emerges from the dense, pine-shadowed landscape of central Alabama where the red-clay earth holds the warmth of the afternoon sun long after the light begins to fail. It lies 15.9 miles west-southwest of Alexander City, AL (from Alexander City, AL: bearing 256°T), and is situated 19.7 miles south of Sylacauga. Red Mouth Creek carves a quiet, persistent path through the undergrowth nearby, its waters dark and steady as they pull away from the stillness of the surrounding woods. To the north, the faint, bruised silhouettes of the Weogufka Mountains rise against the horizon, providing a rugged limit to the view. Within a short distance, the quiet surface of Howards Pond mirrors the shifting canopy of longleaf pine and hardwoods, while the deeper, marshy reaches of the State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a wilder, untamed character that keeps the encroaching reach of the modern world at a distance.

Rockford functions as a deliberate anchor in this agrarian expanse, where the economy remains tethered to the slow cycles of timber and the patient cultivation of the soil. History here is written in the quiet endurance of those who work the land, a narrative shaped by the proximity of the Weogufka State Forest and the rhythms of a regional life that favors tradition over haste. The air often carries the heavy, humid weight of the inland summer, settling over the roads and fields with a gravity that defines the local pace of existence. In Rockford, the days unfold with a predictable, grounded gravity, reflecting a culture that values the steady labor of the harvest and the deep, abiding connection to the red earth beneath the feet of its inhabitants.

About This Rockford Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rockford, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.896866, -86.208346. 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 Rockford includes the ZIP code (35136), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Coosa County (Rockford), and school district assignment (Coosa 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.