West Jefferson Alabama Map
Explore West Jefferson, 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 West Jefferson, Alabama
How to Use This West Jefferson, Alabama Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for West Jefferson, 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 West Jefferson.
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 | West Jefferson |
| State | Alabama (AL) |
| County | Jefferson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 33.666515 |
| Longitude | -87.047035 |
| Population | 417 |
| Density | 86.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 35130 |
| Area Code | 205, 256 |
| County Seat | Birmingham |
| School District | Jefferson County School District |
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.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 0.8 mi, 105° E
- Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 4.9 mi, 124° SE
- Adams Park (Local Park) — 6.1 mi, 142° SE
- John Bensko Park (Local Park) — 7.0 mi, 105° E
- April 27, 2011 Tornado memeorial (Monument) — 10.0 mi, 309° NW
- Mulberry Fork Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 10.2 mi, 239° SW
- Walker County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.6 mi, 311° NW
- Oak Grove Football Stadium (Stadium) — 15.0 mi, 205° SW
- Oak Grove Baseball Stadium (Stadium) — 15.1 mi, 205° SW
- Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex Theatre (Theatre) — 16.6 mi, 126° SE
- Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (Museum) — 16.8 mi, 125° SE
- Steelworker (Monument) — 16.9 mi, 126° SE
- Rainbow LED Tunnel (Attraction) — 17.3 mi, 129° SE
- Sidewalk Cinema (Cinema) — 17.3 mi, 127° SE
- Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books (Museum) — 17.3 mi, 127° SE
- Heaviest Corner on Earth (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 127° SE
- Rickwood Caverns State Park (State Park) — 17.6 mi, 036° NE
- Magic City Sign (Public Artwork) — 17.6 mi, 127° SE
- Alys Stephens Center (Theatre) — 18.1 mi, 130° SE
- Ishkooda Overlook (Viewpoint) — 18.1 mi, 146° SE
- Birmingham Premiere LUX Ciné GSX & Pizza Pub (Cinema) — 19.9 mi, 142° SE
- Boyd E. Christenberry Planetarium (Museum) — 20.3 mi, 133° SE
- Leslie Stephen Wright Fine Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 20.3 mi, 134° SE
- Studio By the Tracks (Arts Centre) — 21.6 mi, 114° SE
- William B. Bankhead National Forest (National Forest) — 25.3 mi, 349° N · 182k acres
- Trussville Entertainment District (Attraction) — 25.4 mi, 097° E
- Oak Mountain State Park (State Park) — 27.9 mi, 147° SE
- Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.9 mi, 181° S · 8,383 acres
- Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 46.8 mi, 198° S · 395k acres
- Sipsey Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 47.6 mi, 338° N · 26k acres
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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).
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. |
