Union Alabama Map

About Union, Alabama

Union is a locality in Randolph 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 marks the landscape with a quiet persistence, defined by the red-clay earth and the dense, encroaching shadow of longleaf pine that defines this inland stretch of Alabama. It lies 24.1 miles southeast of Oxford, AL (from Oxford, AL: bearing 124°T), and is situated 19.7 miles north-northwest of Roanoke. The horizon remains level and vast, save for the distant, hazy silhouette of Plunkett Mountain standing six miles away, a silent sentinel over the plains. Only a mile from the center of Union, the dark, slow-moving waters of Mud Creek carve through the soil, fed by the humid air that clings to the bottomland hardwoods and keeps the heavy, iron-rich dust settled on the back roads. Six miles out, the surface of Barton Lake holds the flat, pale light of late afternoon, mirroring the wide expanse of sky in a way that makes the ground feel as though it might simply dissolve into the atmosphere.

History in Union is measured in the slow accumulation of seasons and the enduring labor of those who work the pecan orchards and agricultural fields that form the backbone of the local economy. The legacy of the past remains etched into the silence of the fields, where the memory of struggle and resilience informs the deliberate, measured pace of daily life. To the west, the State-owned Submerged Lands provide a protected buffer of wild growth, a space where the thickets of the South assert themselves against the encroaching reach of development. Life in Union moves with the gravity of the land itself, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is often punctuated only by the shift of wind through the pines or the distant, rhythmic hum of machinery echoing across the flat, open country.

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 Randolph County (Wedowee), 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.