Explore Union, 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 Union, 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 Union.
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 | Union |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Clarke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 32.99381 |
| Longitude | -87.907179 |
| Population | 180 |
| Density | 84.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 36280, 36279, 36853, 35462 |
| Area Code | 251, 256 |
| County Seat | Grove Hill |
| School District | Greene County School District |
Union occupies a landscape of thick, red-clay earth that holds the warmth of the sun long after the light has begun to fail. It lies 58.3 miles north-northeast of Saraland, AL (from Saraland, AL: bearing 17°T), and is situated 5.5 miles south of Grove Hill. The topography surrounding Union consists of low, undulating swells of land, where the dense shade of longleaf pine gives way to the tangled, shadowed growth of bottomland hardwood. A mile to the west, the slow, muddy pulse of Simmons Creek carves a quiet path through the soil, while the stillness of Maubila Boy Scout Lake waits only two miles away, its surface often mirroring the heavy, humid sky. Far to the horizon, the faint, hazy silhouette of Hickory Ridge marks the limit of the view, a distant reminder of the rugged elevations that define the wider regional geography.
Agriculture has long dictated the pace of existence in Union, with the rhythm of the seasons measured by the yield of pecan groves and the slow maturation of orchards. The soil here carries the weight of a complex history, where the legacies of rural labor and the quiet endurance of small-scale farming remain etched into the social character of the populace. Residents often travel ten miles toward Hw Pearce Jr Memorial Park, finding in its quiet expanses a reprieve from the labor of the day and a space to observe the persistence of the natural world. Daily life in Union moves with an unforced cadence, shaped by the heat of the afternoon and the simple necessity of tending to the fields that have sustained these families for generations.
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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 Clarke County (Grove Hill), and school district assignment (Greene 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. |