Union Alabama Map

About Union, Alabama

Union is a locality in Greene County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 84.7 people per km². Union is located at 32.9938°N, 87.9072°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Union is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 36280, 36279, 36853.

Union reveals itself through the heavy, humid stillness of the Black Belt, where the red-clay soil clings to the roots of longleaf pines and ancient hardwoods. It lies 25.2 miles southwest of Tuscaloosa, AL (from Tuscaloosa, AL: bearing 233°T), and is situated 16.5 miles west of Moundville. Traces of Trussells Creek mark the low-lying terrain just a mile from the center, its waters carving a quiet path through the dense, verdant thickets that define the local geography. Far to the northwest, the faint, hazy silhouette of Beach Ridge haunts the horizon, a distant reminder of the shifting elevations that precede the more mountainous reaches of the state. The light here at dusk possesses a peculiar, syrupy quality, settling over the pastures like a golden weight that flattens the shadows and turns the fields into pools of amber.

History permeates the architecture of Union, where the weathered clapboard of mid-century structures holds the memory of a landscape shaped by agrarian ambition and the enduring cycles of the harvest. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil, with pecan groves and sprawling tracts of farmland dominating the surrounding expanse, occasionally interrupted by the quietude of State-owned Submerged Lands seven miles away. While the bustle of modern commerce feels worlds apart, the presence of Duck Pond offers a singular, reflective point of stillness in the landscape, its surface mirroring the vast, unhurried sky. Life in Union unfolds with a deliberate cadence, grounded in the seasonal shifting of the crops and the quiet persistence of a community that measures time not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable turning of the earth.

About This Union Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Union, Alabama. Coordinates: 32.99381, -87.907179. 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 Union includes the ZIP code (36280, 36279, 36853), telephone area code (251, 256), county seat of Greene County (Eutaw), and school district assignment (Greene County School District).

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.