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Snead Alabama Map

Explore Snead, 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 Snead, Alabama

How to Use This Snead, Alabama Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Snead, 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 Snead.

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

Latitude	34.119541
Longitude	-86.39554
Population	1,032
Density	72.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	35952
Area Code	334, 205
County Seat	Oneonta
School District	Blount County School District

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About Snead, Alabama

Snead is a locality in Blount County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,032. The population density is 72.2 people per km². Snead is located at 34.1195°N, 86.3955°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Snead is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35952.

Snead occupies a stretch of high ground where the horizon pulls back to reveal the distant, hazy silhouette of Altoona Mountain. It lies 14.3 miles west-southwest of Boaz, AL (from Boaz, AL: bearing 247°T), and is situated 14.8 miles southwest of Albertville. Rocky Branch carves a quiet, persistent path through the red clay nearby, feeding the damp earth that supports a dense canopy of longleaf pine and hardwoods. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, casting long shadows that settle over the fields like a heavy blanket, while the humidity of the inland air creates a stillness that seems to suspend the very atmosphere above the soil. To the north, the expanse of Guntersville Lake exerts a cooling influence on the climate, tempering the heat that radiates from the sun-baked plains during the peak of summer.

Snead emerged from the persistence of agrarian families who turned the stubborn, iron-rich earth into a livelihood, establishing a character defined by self-reliance and the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons. Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of the local economy, though the modern landscape is now marked by the modest infrastructure of small-scale commerce and industry. A mile away, the State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a sliver of the natural world, offering a quiet contrast to the human-tended acreage that defines the perimeter of the settlement. Life in Snead maintains a measured cadence, unbothered by the frantic pace of larger hubs, finding its rhythm instead in the maintenance of property and the quiet, recurring labor that sustains a community built upon the foundations of Little Cove and the surrounding plateau.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 038° NE
Bailey School (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 187° S
Battle Royal (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 237° SW
Exploit of Murphree Sisters (Monument) — 6.6 mi, 237° SW
OBA Artwalk (Attraction) — 12.9 mi, 201° S
Albertville Recreation Center (Local Recreation) — 14.3 mi, 041° NE
SMPA Artist House (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 042° NE
Boaz 9 Cinema (Cinema) — 14.6 mi, 069° E
Baileyton Good Time DragStrip (Attraction) — 15.1 mi, 306° NW
Mountain Air Trampoline Park (Attraction) — 15.5 mi, 050° NE
Nectar Falls (Attraction) — 15.9 mi, 233° SW
Walter Cotton Gin (Historic Ruins) — 16.0 mi, 270° W
Saint Joseph (Public Artwork) — 17.3 mi, 255° W
Lake Guntersville State Park (State Park) — 19.2 mi, 029° NE
Noccalula Falls Petting Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 21.8 mi, 105° E
Noccalula Falls Scenic View (Viewpoint) — 22.1 mi, 104° E
Bangor Cave (Historic Ruins) — 22.8 mi, 245° SW
Cullman County Museum (Museum) — 25.9 mi, 279° W
Buck's Pocket State Park (State Park) — 30.3 mi, 037° NE
Janney Furnace Civil War and Native American Museum and Interpritive Center (Museum) — 31.1 mi, 136° SE
Chad Hawkins Stadium (Stadium) — 31.5 mi, 073° E
Bethel Spring Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 34.0 mi, 003° N
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.8 mi, 328° NW · 35k acres
Jackson County Waterfowl Area And Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 36.4 mi, 027° NE · 16k acres
William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 41.6 mi, 281° W · 182k acres
Little River Canyon National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 41.7 mi, 073° E · 11k acres
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 42.8 mi, 116° SE · 395k acres
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.3 mi, 125° SE · 18k acres
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 46.6 mi, 114° SE · 8,947 acres
Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 56.0 mi, 284° W · 26k acres

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