Explore Spring Garden, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Spring Garden, 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 Spring Garden.
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 | Spring Garden |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Jefferson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.972965 |
| Longitude | -85.555756 |
| Population | 216 |
| Density | 36.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 35217, 36272 |
| Area Code | 205, 334 |
| County Seat | Birmingham |
| School District | Cherokee County School District |
Spring Garden emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet confluence of woodland and field, anchored by the stillness of the nearby landscape. It lies 4.6 miles southeast of Gardendale, AL (from Gardendale, AL: bearing 135°T), and is situated 6.9 miles north-northeast of Birmingham. The topography here holds a deliberate, measured weight, defined by the gentle rise of Rocky Row three miles to the west and the shadowed depth of Red Hollow, which cuts its own path through the terrain. Water defines the immediate proximity, with the slow, persistent flow of Barton Branch and the placid surface of Pawnee Reservoir both resting just a mile from the center. At Pine Knoll Park, the light filters through the canopy in long, amber slats, illuminating the transition between the dense brush and the open, cultivated tracts that define the local horizon.
Spring Garden retains a character forged in the soil, where the economy has long leaned upon the rhythms of the land and the endurance of local harvests. The history of the area persists in the enduring patterns of the roads and the way the architecture sits low against the horizon, unbothered by the frantic pace of distant urban centers. Residents maintain a connection to the deeper, older woods, specifically the vast expanse of the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest, which stands as a reminder of the region’s timber and ecological heritage. Life in Spring Garden moves with a steady, unsentimental gravity, marked by the changing colors of the foliage and the reliable, quiet return of the seasons across the fields.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spring Garden, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.972965, -85.555756. 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 Spring Garden includes the ZIP code (35217, 36272), telephone area code (205, 334), county seat of Jefferson County (Birmingham), and school district assignment (Cherokee County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |