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Wedowee Alabama Map

Explore Wedowee, 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 Wedowee, Alabama

How to Use This Wedowee, Alabama Map

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

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	Wedowee
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Randolph County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	33.309005
Longitude	-85.484675
Population	737
Density	81.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	36278
Area Code	334
County Seat	Wedowee
School District	Randolph County School District

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About Wedowee, Alabama

Wedowee is a locality in Randolph County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 737. The population density is 81.4 people per km². Wedowee is located at 33.3090°N, 85.4847°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Wedowee is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36278.

Wedowee emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet confluence of woodland and water, where the Frog Level Branch carves a persistent, winding path through the landscape. It lies 29.2 miles southeast of Oxford, AL (from Oxford, AL: bearing 136°T), and is situated 12.7 miles north-northwest of Roanoke. The air here holds the heavy, humid weight of the inland South, clinging to the needles of longleaf pine and the broad leaves of bottomland hardwoods that define the horizon. Two miles to the east, the stillness of Barton Lake offers a mirror to the sky, its surface often undisturbed save for the occasional ripple of a dragonfly. On the far edges of the vista, the silhouette of Blake Mountain rises as a muted, indigo shadow against the dusk, grounding the expansive, timbered plains in a geologic permanence that seems to slow the very passage of time.

Wedowee carries the quiet gravity of a place built upon the slow, deliberate work of agriculture and the timber trade, remnants of which remain visible in the weathered barns and fading storefronts of the center. The local economy persists through a steady, modest rhythm, tethered to the land and the stewardship of nearby tracts like the State-owned Submerged Lands, where the silence is broken only by the movement of wildlife through the underbrush. Days here are marked by the shifting quality of light on the red-dirt roads, a golden, hazy glow that settles over the fields and porches in the late afternoon. Life in Wedowee remains anchored by these cycles, a testament to a patience found in regions where the soil is deep, the shade is cool, and the memory of the land remains as vivid as the pines that stand watch over the county seat.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 322° NW
Clay County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 14.9 mi, 306° NW
Bell UH-1 (Attraction) — 15.0 mi, 272° W
Clay County Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 15.0 mi, 272° W
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 17.1 mi, 315° NW · 395k acres
Georgia State Line (Monument) — 18.6 mi, 032° NE
Cheaha Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 20.2 mi, 295° NW · 7,400 acres
Cheaha State Park (State Park) — 20.9 mi, 305° NW
Scenic Overlook (Viewpoint) — 21.1 mi, 311° NW
West Point Lake (Recreation Area) — 21.1 mi, 136° SE
West Point Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 21.1 mi, 136° SE
Bush Head Shoals State Park (State Park) — 21.9 mi, 094° E
Highest Point in Alabama (Attraction) — 22.3 mi, 303° NW
Heard County Historical Center and Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 095° E
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 Memorial (Monument) — 24.5 mi, 041° NE
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.3 mi, 328° NW · 18k acres
AmStar Stadium Cinema 12 (Cinema) — 28.8 mi, 317° NW
Kathy Cashen Recital Hall (Theatre) — 28.9 mi, 051° NE
Blue Door Gallery (Gallery) — 30.2 mi, 051° NE
Coldwater Mountain (State Recreation Area) — 30.3 mi, 316° NW
Greyhound Mural (Public Artwork) — 31.3 mi, 320° NW
Callaway Auditorium (Theatre) — 32.0 mi, 127° SE
Dugger Mountain Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 36.7 mi, 347° N · 8,947 acres
Catie Radney's Studio (Arts Centre) — 37.0 mi, 227° SW
Talladega College Sign (Attraction) — 37.2 mi, 284° W
Talladega College Entrance Gate (Attraction) — 37.2 mi, 284° W
Janney Furnace Civil War and Native American Museum and Interpritive Center (Museum) — 45.6 mi, 318° NW
Chipeley Historical Center (Museum) — 47.6 mi, 130° SE
Yorkville Gold Mines (Historic Ruins) — 51.5 mi, 035° NE
Tuskegee National Forest (National Forest) — 55.3 mi, 184° S · 11k acres

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