Section Alabama Map

About Section, Alabama

Section is a locality in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 756. The population density is 63.8 people per km². Section is located at 34.5816°N, 85.9849°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Section is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 35646, 35771.

Section occupies a high, expansive plateau where the soil turns a deep, rusted iron color and the air carries the heavy, humid weight of the inland summer. It lies 11.3 miles east-southeast of Muscle Shoals, AL (from Muscle Shoals, AL: bearing 106°T), and is situated 13.3 miles east-southeast of Florence. The landscape around Section unfolds in a series of quiet, deliberate slopes that eventually drop away toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Peanut Ridge. Near the center of the terrain, the still, dark surface of Nichols Pond reflects the shifting clouds, while the nearby State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a wilder, untamed patch of green. Only a mile away, the quiet flow of Town Creek carves its way through the earth, a constant, rhythmic presence that has shaped the drainage of the fields for generations.

History in Section remains grounded in the slow, persistent labor of the land, where the economy has long drawn its strength from the cycles of the harvest and the small-scale commerce of the ridge. Life moves with the deliberate pace of those who watch the seasons, from the bright, dusty heat of harvest to the cool, amber light that settles over Abernathy Bottom in the late autumn. Travelers might find their way to the nearby wonder of The Fall Off, where the water descends in a sudden, sharp break, marking the edge of the plateau with a singular, echoing sound. There is a quiet, enduring quality to the afternoons here, an atmosphere defined not by grand monuments, but by the steady, unadorned work of the people who tend the local acreage and keep the pulse of Section beating in the quietude of the interior.

About This Section Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Section, Alabama. Coordinates: 34.581644, -85.984942. 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 Section includes the ZIP code (35646, 35771), telephone area code (256), county seat of Colbert County (Tuscumbia), and school district assignment (Jackson 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.