Sardis Alabama Map

About Sardis, Alabama

Sardis is a locality in Crenshaw County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,814. Sardis is located at 31.9029°N, 86.3158°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 36041, 36775.

Sardis emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet gathering of homes and timberland where the persistent murmur of Bess Branch defines the local topography. It lies 21.3 miles west-northwest of Troy, AL (from Troy, AL: bearing 288°T), and is situated 18.4 miles east-northeast of Greenville. The landscape here is defined by a slow, rhythmic transition from dense stands of longleaf pine to the humid, shaded bottomlands that hold the morning mist long after the sun has climbed. While Gopher Ridge looms as a faint, jagged suggestion of height on the distant horizon, Sardis remains anchored in the fertile, low-lying plains where the quality of light at dusk turns the dusty back roads into ribbons of burnished copper. Four miles to the west, the quiet waters of Lake Bradleyton offer a stillness that mirrors the deliberate, unforced pace of life in the surrounding woods.

The economic pulse of Sardis beats in time with the harvest of the fields and the careful stewardship of the surrounding timber, a legacy rooted in the generations who first broke this soil. Life here is characterized by the scent of damp earth and the heavy, stagnant heat of midsummer afternoons, a climate that has shaped both the architecture of the older dwellings and the resilience of the residents. While the State-owned Submerged Lands remain a distant sanctuary for the wilder, untamed parts of the region, Sardis maintains its own modest identity through its local schools and the enduring, quiet traditions of its people. Every porch and fence line in Sardis serves as a witness to the passing decades, holding fast to a character that values the weight of memory and the simple necessity of a day’s honest labor.

About This Sardis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sardis, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.902929, -86.315798. 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 Sardis includes the ZIP code (36041, 36775), telephone area code (334, 251), county seat of Crenshaw County (Luverne), and school district assignment.

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.