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Taylor Alabama Map

Explore Taylor, 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 Taylor, Alabama

How to Use This Taylor, Alabama Map

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

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.

CityTaylor
StateAlabama (AL)
CountyMontgomery County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude31.168811
Longitude-85.47579
Population2,262
Density120.8 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes36036, 36301
Area Code334, 251
County SeatMontgomery
School DistrictHouston County School District

About Taylor, Alabama

Taylor is a locality in Montgomery County, Alabama, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,262. The population density is 120.8 people per km². Taylor is located at 31.1688°N, 85.4758°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Taylor is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 36036, 36301.

Taylor emerges from the flat, iron-rich earth of the Wiregrass, a place where the horizon stretches wide and the sky holds a heavy, humid weight. It lies 19.3 miles northwest of Troy, AL (from Troy, AL: bearing 307°T), and is situated 18.0 miles north of Luverne. The landscape surrounding Taylor is defined by the steady, slow persistence of Dry Creek, which marks the low ground a mile away, and the quiet stillness of Morgan Pond, resting just two miles out in the woods. Deep-rooted longleaf pines and tangled bottomland hardwoods dominate the view, casting long, lean shadows across the red-clay soil as the afternoon light turns thick and golden. On the far, hazy edge of the horizon, the faint silhouette of Gopher Ridge provides a distant boundary to the expansive plains, grounding the geography in a series of subtle, earth-bound shifts that define the local weather and the slow movement of the seasons.

Taylor functions as a quiet link in the agricultural chain of the region, where the economy has long been tethered to the rhythm of the harvest and the persistent labor of the fields. The character of the place is built on the steady, unremarkable endurance of people who have worked this soil for generations, finding a distinct dignity in the routine of the workday. While the bustle of larger regional centers pulses elsewhere, the life of Taylor remains tied to the local land and the memory of the work that carved it out of the brush. Even as the modern world encroaches with its paved roads and power lines, the stillness remains, punctuated by the seasonal cycle of crops and the occasional quiet activity near the State-owned Submerged Lands, which lie sixteen miles away as a preserved pocket of the natural world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Taylor Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 127° SE
  • Dothan Trail Park (State Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 019° N
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 3.3 mi, 147° SE
  • Rip Hewes Ballfield Park (Local Recreation) — 4.8 mi, 059° NE
  • Unknown Ballfields (Local Recreation) — 5.8 mi, 054° NE
  • State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 6.3 mi, 336° NW
  • Dothan Leadership Monument (Monument) — 6.3 mi, 052° NE
  • Camera Nut Peanut (Public Artwork) — 6.3 mi, 050° NE
  • Bell UH-1H Huey (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 054° NE
  • World's Smallest City Block (Monument) — 6.4 mi, 053° NE
  • Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 163° S
  • Bell AH-1F Cobra (Attraction) — 20.0 mi, 334° NW
  • Bell UH-1C Huey (Attraction) — 20.2 mi, 306° NW
  • Oktahatko (Historic Ruins) — 20.5 mi, 143° SE
  • Omussee Creek Mound (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 071° E
  • Old Cabin Jail Museum (Museum) — 23.1 mi, 068° E
  • Southern Broadway (Theatre) — 24.5 mi, 294° NW
  • Florida Caverns State Park (State Park) — 27.3 mi, 150° SE
  • Indian Village (Historic Ruins) — 28.8 mi, 149° SE
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 33.1 mi, 117° SE
  • Blue Springs State Park (State Park) — 33.2 mi, 357° N
  • Kolomoki Mounds (Museum) — 37.4 mi, 056° NE
  • View point (Viewpoint) — 41.1 mi, 038° NE
  • Apalachicola National Forest (National Forest) — 43.1 mi, 177° S · 576k acres
  • Swamp Gravy - Georgia's Official Folk-Life Theater (Theatre) — 44.0 mi, 089° E
  • Uniquely Clever LLC (Arts Centre) — 48.8 mi, 231° SW
  • Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ga (National Wildlife Refuge) — 49.2 mi, 073° E · 1,786 acres
  • Pike Pioneer Museum (Museum) — 54.7 mi, 326° NW
  • Conecuh River Depot (Museum) — 54.7 mi, 326° NW
  • Conecuh National Forest (National Forest) — 54.9 mi, 269° W · 85k acres

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About This Taylor Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Taylor, Alabama. Coordinates: 31.168811, -85.47579. 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 Taylor includes the ZIP code (36036, 36301), telephone area code (334, 251), county seat of Montgomery County (Montgomery), and school district assignment (Houston 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.