Sipsey Alabama Map

About Sipsey, Alabama

Sipsey is a locality in Walker County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 363. The population density is 291.4 people per km². Sipsey is located at 33.8248°N, 87.0861°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Sipsey is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35584.

Sipsey emerges from the dense, humid greenery of the Alabama interior as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the slow persistence of the landscape. It lies 11.0 miles east of Jasper, AL (from Jasper, AL: bearing 92°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north of Dora. The earth here is stained a deep, rusted iron color, where Burton Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the soil just a mile away, feeding the lush moisture that clings to the bottomland hardwoods. Further out, the terrain rises into the subtle, undulating contours that eventually lead toward the distant, jagged silhouette of Red Mountain on the horizon. The light in the late afternoon possesses a heavy, amber quality, catching the dust motes above the red-clay back roads and illuminating the way toward the quiet expanse of Williams Lake, which sits seven miles distant, reflecting the sky in a mirror of still, dark water.

Sipsey bears the weight of a history rooted in the extraction of coal and the labor of those who worked the seams that once defined the regional economy. The memory of these industrial endeavors lingers in the quietude of the surroundings, where the pace of life remains tethered to the slow cycles of the seasons rather than the frantic momentum of modern commerce. Visitors occasionally trace the remnants of the past at the Minkin Fossil Site, a nearby area that reveals the prehistoric life once buried deep within these strata. Though the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest stands fourteen miles away as a testament to the preservation of the native timberlands, the daily existence in Sipsey remains centered on the intimate connection between the residents and the ancient, forested hollows like Tucker Hollow that define the local geography.

About This Sipsey Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sipsey, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.824827, -87.086112. 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 Sipsey includes the ZIP code (35584), telephone area code (205), county seat of Walker County (Jasper), and school district assignment (Walker 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.