West Jefferson Alabama Map

About West Jefferson, Alabama

West Jefferson is a locality in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 417. The population density is 86.4 people per km². West Jefferson is located at 33.6665°N, 87.0470°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. West Jefferson is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 35130.

West Jefferson occupies a landscape where the dense, humid air of the interior presses against the heavy leaves of bottomland hardwood trees. It lies 14.3 miles north-northwest of Hueytown, AL (from Hueytown, AL: bearing 343°T), and is situated 7.3 miles west-northwest of Adamsville. The terrain surrounding West Jefferson is defined by the steady, persistent flow of Locust Fork, which carves a path through the red-clay soil just a mile away, feeding the moisture into the local timber and undergrowth. Five miles to the north, the canopy of the United States Reservation - Flat Top Experimental Forest offers a dense, controlled expanse of greenery, while the nearby State-owned Submerged Lands preserve a quiet, riparian rhythm that dictates the slow drainage of the basin. The light here at dusk possesses a bruised, violet quality, turning the distant silhouettes of the landscape into ink-black shapes against a cooling sky.

Economic life in West Jefferson has long been tethered to the rugged utility of the earth, echoing a history of resource extraction that shaped the local settlement patterns. Residents of West Jefferson look toward the terrain as a source of both labor and legacy, with the nearby, quiet expanse of Williams Lake providing a still contrast to the moving waters of the regional creeks. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the land deepens into the shadows of Kershaw Hollow, a place where the air hangs cooler and the silence is punctuated only by the shift of seasonal birds. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a region that has watched the slow evolution of its own industry, maintaining a character forged by the intersection of forest, clay, and the persistent, unhurried drainage of the surrounding watershed.

About This West Jefferson Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of West Jefferson, Alabama. Coordinates: 33.666515, -87.047035. 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 West Jefferson includes the ZIP code (35130), telephone area code (205, 256), county seat of Jefferson County (Birmingham), and school district assignment (Jefferson 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.