Explore Standing Rock, 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 Standing Rock, 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 Standing Rock.
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 | Standing Rock |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Chambers County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.08569 |
| Longitude | -85.239849 |
| Population | 132 |
| Density | 16.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 36855 |
| Area Code | 251 |
| County Seat | LaFayette |
| School District | Chambers County School District |
Standing Rock exists as a quiet convergence of red-clay earth and the persistent, wandering currents of the Lee Branch. It lies 18.5 miles north-northwest of Valley, AL (from Valley, AL: bearing 347°T), and is situated 8.5 miles southeast of Roanoke. The landscape here is characterized by the slow, deliberate transition from dense woodland to open stretches of soil that hold the heat of the afternoon sun long after the light begins to fail. Only a mile away, the expansive waters of West Point Lake offer a stillness that mirrors the quietude of the surrounding pines, while the distant rise of Hogg Mountain serves as a faint, jagged silhouette against the wide horizon. The air carries the heavy, humid weight of the inland summer, grounding the atmosphere in a slow, rhythmic patience that defines the character of the soil itself.
Historical echoes reside in the very fiber of the roads that traverse Standing Rock, tracing paths laid down by those who carved a life from the thick bottomland hardwood and the stubborn, iron-rich ground. The local economy remains tethered to the land, reflecting a heritage of agriculture that has long shaped the daily labor of its people. Residents often look toward the nearby West Point Lake recreational areas for a sense of reprieve, where the intersection of water and forest creates a sanctuary for the quiet observer. Life in Standing Rock moves with the steady, unpretentious gravity of a place that values its own continuity, untouched by the rush of distant centers and defined instead by the seasonal cycles of the timber and the turning of the peach and pecan crops.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Standing Rock, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.08569, -85.239849. 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 Standing Rock includes the ZIP code (36855), telephone area code (251), county seat of Chambers County (LaFayette), and school district assignment (Chambers 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. |