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Yellow Bluff Alabama Map

Explore Yellow Bluff, 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 Yellow Bluff, Alabama

How to Use This Yellow Bluff, Alabama Map

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

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	Yellow Bluff
State	Alabama (AL)
County	Wilcox County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	31.962341
Longitude	-87.477359
Population	208
Density	128.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	36769
Area Code	334
County Seat	Camden
School District	Wilcox County School District

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About Yellow Bluff, Alabama

Yellow Bluff is a locality in Wilcox County, Alabama, United States. It is a small community with a population of 208. The population density is 128.3 people per km². Yellow Bluff is located at 31.9623°N, 87.4774°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Yellow Bluff is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 36769.

Yellow Bluff emerges from the dense, tangled undergrowth of the Alabama interior as a quiet stretch of earth shaped by the patient, persistent movement of the Alabama River. It lies 40.1 miles southwest of Selma, AL (from Selma, AL: bearing 221°T), and is situated 16.1 miles east-northeast of Thomasville. The topography here is defined by broad, humid woodlands where longleaf pines loom over deep, iron-heavy soil that stains the boots red after a heavy rain. Sunlight filters through the heavy canopy in thin, dusty shafts, illuminating the stillness of the MacMillan Bloedel Incorporated Waste Pond, a singular, stagnant presence that marks the local geography with its industrial weight. To the west, the distant elevation of the Grumpton Hills breaks the horizon, a soft, hazy silhouette that suggests the land rises toward a wider, more rugged world beyond the thick humidity of the bottomlands.

Yellow Bluff carries the heavy, quiet memory of a landscape that has long served as a corridor for human endeavor and the slow, steady churn of local labor. Residents find their rhythm in the shadow of the Claiborne Recreation Area, where the land opens up slightly to allow the passage of the Alabama River, a waterway that has dictated the fortunes and transport of this region for generations. The economy here is tethered to the slow pulse of the soil and the industrial utility of the surrounding woods, maintaining a pace of life that values the cooling shade of a pecan grove over the frantic speed of modern commerce. Each dusk, the air grows thick with the scent of damp earth and woodsmoke, settling over the fields with a gravity that feels as permanent as the red clay itself.

Nearby Outdoor Places

State-owned Submerged Lands (Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 036° NE
Claiborne Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 1.4 mi, 038° NE
Millers Ferry Lock Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 9.4 mi, 028° NE
Confederate Monument (Monument) — 11.0 mi, 078° E
Red Hills Complex (State Conservation Area) — 13.3 mi, 146° SE
Roland Cooper State Park (State Park) — 14.6 mi, 065° NE
Monroe County Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 20.5 mi, 143° SE
Scotch Wildlife Management Area (Conservation Area) — 22.6 mi, 253° W
Clarke County Museum (Museum) — 24.8 mi, 225° SW
World War I Monument (1924) (Monument) — 24.9 mi, 225° SW
Old Cahawba Prairie Tract (State Recreation Area) — 29.8 mi, 038° NE
Atticus Finch Monument (Monument) — 31.4 mi, 163° S
A Celebration of Reading (Public Artwork) — 31.4 mi, 163° S
Chickasaw State Park (State Park) — 32.2 mi, 326° NW
Old Cahawba Archaeological Park (Attraction) — 33.0 mi, 041° NE
Sturdivant Hall (Museum) — 40.7 mi, 040° NE
Selma Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 40.8 mi, 041° NE
Eastside-Pickard Auditorium (Theatre) — 40.9 mi, 041° NE
Tabernacle Baptist Church Guided Tours (Attraction) — 41.2 mi, 040° NE
Old Saint Stephens Archaeological Site (Historic Ruins) — 43.2 mi, 230° SW
Warhouse Performing Arts Center (Cinema) — 43.7 mi, 331° NW
Warhouse Drive-In (Cinema) — 43.9 mi, 329° NW
Dal Hotel (Attraction) — 45.7 mi, 157° SE
Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum (Museum) — 48.6 mi, 117° SE
Talladega National Forest (National Forest) — 50.1 mi, 030° NE · 395k acres
Engle Gallery (Gallery) — 51.7 mi, 352° N
Fort Mims (Historic Castle / Fort) — 58.0 mi, 202° S
Wiggins Stadium (Stadium) — 58.5 mi, 213° SW
De Soto National Forest (National Forest) — 75.7 mi, 241° SW · 532k acres
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 78.8 mi, 017° N · 8,383 acres

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