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Smoke Rise Alabama Map

Explore Smoke Rise, Alabama, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Smoke Rise, Alabama

How to Use This Smoke Rise, Alabama Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Smoke Rise, Alabama. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alabama or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Smoke Rise.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Smoke Rise
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Blount County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.879942
Longitude	-86.824683
Population	1,661
Density	110.5 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	35475, 35180
Area Code	256, 205
County Seat	Oneonta
School District	Blount County School District

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About Smoke Rise, Alabama

Smoke Rise is a locality in Blount County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,661. The population density is 110.5 people per km². Smoke Rise is located at 33.8799°N, 86.8247°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 35475, 35180.

Smoke Rise unfolds across a landscape of persistent, red-clay ridges where the Double Branch carves a quiet, winding path through the dense undergrowth. It lies 16.0 miles north of Gardendale, AL (from Gardendale, AL: bearing 358°T), and is situated 8.2 miles north of Kimberly. Bryant Mountain looms a single mile to the horizon, its silhouette sharpening against the amber light of late afternoon as the shadows deepen into The Sink, a nearby basin that gathers the evening mist. The air here carries the heavy, humid weight of the inland interior, smelling of damp earth and the resinous scent of pines that have long anchored this terrain. Beyond the immediate thickets, the terrain remains rugged and untamed, offering a stark, quiet beauty that shifts with the slow passage of the sun across the canopy.

History in Smoke Rise is written in the slow reclamation of the land, where the remnants of earlier industry have long since surrendered to the encroaching hardwood forest. Local life moves with the deliberate pace of a region defined by its proximity to the subterranean limestone passages of Rickwood Caverns State Park, which draw those curious about the intricate, dripping architecture hidden beneath the surface. While the economy remains modest and tethered to the rhythms of the surrounding woodland, the residents maintain a deep connection to the geography that separates them from the more crowded corridors of the state. Only eleven miles away, the expansive waters of Lewis Smith Lake offer a different kind of stillness, reflecting the vast, unbroken sky that hangs over this quiet corner of the Alabama interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rickwood Caverns State Park (State Park) — 1.4 mi, 266° W
Blount Springs (Monument) — 4.0 mi, 024° NE
State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 330° NW
Unknown Baseball Park (Local Recreation) — 4.2 mi, 172° S
Baseball Field (Local Recreation) — 6.2 mi, 176° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.0 mi, 175° S
Bangor Cave (Historic Ruins) — 7.8 mi, 031° NE
Turkey Creek Nature Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 13.7 mi, 151° SE
Nectar Falls (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 060° NE
Saint Francis of Assisi (Public Artwork) — 14.4 mi, 033° NE
Blountsville (Monument) — 16.4 mi, 052° NE
Walter Cotton Gin (Historic Ruins) — 18.7 mi, 027° NE
Bent, not Broken (Monument) — 19.1 mi, 357° N
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 20.2 mi, 300° NW · 182k acres
OBA Artwalk (Attraction) — 20.5 mi, 077° E
Cullman County Museum (Museum) — 20.7 mi, 357° N
ACTA Theater (Theatre) — 21.5 mi, 144° SE
Sportsman Lake (Attraction) — 21.7 mi, 354° N
Trussville Childrens Theater (Theatre) — 21.7 mi, 151° SE
Trussville Entertainment District (Attraction) — 21.9 mi, 146° SE
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 24.5 mi, 178° S
Legacy Arena (Stadium) — 24.6 mi, 178° S
Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 24.7 mi, 164° S
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 178° S
Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 25.3 mi, 178° S
Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 34.8 mi, 167° S
Sipsey Fork West Fork, Alabama Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 36.6 mi, 306° NW · 10k acres
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 42.3 mi, 315° NW · 26k acres
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.6 mi, 351° N · 35k acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 52.4 mi, 125° SE · 395k acres

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