About Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is a city of 215,006 people and the seat of Madison County, in the far north of Alabama. John Hunt came down from Tennessee in 1805 and settled beside the Big Spring. When the federal government put the land up for sale in 1809, LeRoy Pope and a group of wealthy planters bought much of it, Hunt's claim included. On December 22, 1809, the territorial legislature took Pope's advice and named the town Twickenham, for the English home of the poet Alexander Pope.

Many settlers kept calling the place Hunt's Spring, so in November 1811 the legislature renamed it Huntsville after its first settler. That same year it was incorporated, the first town in present-day Alabama to be. Cotton made it rich, with five gins running by 1815, and from July 5 to August 2, 1819, 44 delegates met in Walker Allen's cabinet-making shop to write the constitution of the new state. Huntsville served as Alabama's first capital for one legislative session before the government moved to Cahaba, later Tuscaloosa and at last Montgomery.

  • The Big SpringIn 1843 William H. Pope, LeRoy Pope's son, gave the spring site to the city for one dollar. It stayed Huntsville's main supply of fresh water until 1957, and for the thirty years before 1950, water sales brought in more money for the city's General Fund than anything else. A park grew up around the spring in 1898, and large crowds gathered for baptisms below its small dam. Big Spring joined the National Register in 1980.
  • Union troops in 1862The Memphis and Charleston Railroad reached Huntsville in 1855 and made it headquarters of its Eastern Division. To cut that line, Union General Ormsby M. Mitchel seized the town on the morning of April 11, 1862. His troops left a few months later, returned in the fall of 1863 and held it as a base until the last months of 1864. They burned homes across the countryside, but most of Huntsville survived because Union officers and soldiers lived there.
  • Alabama A&M since 1873On December 9, 1873, the legislature approved a normal school in Huntsville to train Black teachers. William Hooper Councill, who had been enslaved, founded it and served as its first president. Classes opened in May 1875 in a rented building, the school moved to its own property on West Clinton Street in 1881, and land-grant money in 1891 let it grow and move to its present site. It became Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University, reaching university status in 1969.
  • Frank James found not guiltyThe Calhoun House once served as a federal courthouse, and the outlaw Frank James stood trial there for robbing a government payroll near Muscle Shoals on May 11, 1881. A jury found him not guilty on April 25, 1884. One of his lawyers was Huntsville's own LeRoy Pope Walker, who had been the first Confederate Secretary of War.
  • The Rocket CityIn 1950 about 1,000 Army personnel moved from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Redstone Arsenal, including Wernher von Braun and about 200 German scientists and engineers he led. On January 31, 1958, the Army team launched Explorer 1, America's first satellite. On July 1, 1960, 4,670 civilian workers transferred to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center under von Braun, which in the 1960s developed Saturn boosters for the Apollo Lunar Landing Program.

Find your street

Names on the Huntsville map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks40

  • Huntsville City Hall
  • Bailey Cove Estates
  • Bel Air Estates
  • Bellemeade
  • Belview Heights
  • Big Cove
  • Bluewood Estates
  • Bravo
  • Brookhurst
  • Bucks Canyon
  • Burrows
  • Byrd Springs
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  • Camelot
  • Cedar Valley
  • Cedargate
  • Chase
  • Chelsea
  • Cherry Creek
  • Cherrytree
  • Chimney Springs
  • Darwin Downs
  • Davis Hills
  • Dug Hill
  • Eastridge
  • Elko
  • English Terrace
  • English Village
  • Farley
  • Fleming Hills
  • Fleming Meadows
  • Gentily Forest
  • Green Cove Meadows
  • Greenbrier
  • Haden
  • Hillmont
  • Hillwood
  • Huntsville Park
  • Longwood
  • Mayfair
  • Meadow Hills

Streets and roads133

  • Jordan Lane Northwest
  • Highway 20
  • Ardmore Highway
  • County Line Road
  • Rideout Road
  • Dogwood Flats Road
  • Wall Triana Highway
  • Swancott Road
  • County Highway 28
  • Old Highway 20
  • County Highway 127
  • Zierdt Road
  • Powell Road
  • Anderson Road Southwest
  • Mooresville Road
  • Holladay Boulevard
  • Pulaski Pike
  • Capshaw Road
  • Taylor Road
  • Dug Hill Road
  • Beadle Lane
  • Ve Trail
  • Carters Gin Road
  • Estan Bypass
  • Bibb Garrett Road
  • Wynn Drive
  • Bob Wade Lane
  • Gray Road
  • Segers Road
  • Memorial Parkway Southwest
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  • University Drive Northwest
  • Memorial Parkway Northwest
  • Governors Drive Southeast
  • Lee Highway
  • Heart of Dixie Highway
  • Madison Boulevard
  • Bob Wade Lane Northwest
  • Holmes Avenue Northwest
  • Madison Street
  • Bob Wallace Avenue Southwest
  • Old Railroad Bed Road
  • Old Big Cove Road
  • Slaughter Road
  • Meridian Street North
  • Martin Road
  • Little Cove Road
  • South Shawdee Drive Southeast
  • Martin Road Southwest
  • Oakwood Avenue Northwest
  • Southwest Wall Street
  • Leeman Ferry Road Southwest
  • Indian Springs Road
  • Patton Road Southwest
  • East Boeing Circle
  • Henderson Road
  • Greenbrier Road
  • Monroe Road
  • Kellner Road Southwest
  • Louis Drive Southeast
  • Willowbrook Drive Southeast
  • Southwest Bilou Road
  • Martin Lime Road
  • Campus Road
  • Farm Road
  • Nolen Avenue Southeast
  • Sixth Avenue Southwest
  • Harbor Glen Drive
  • Humphrey Road
  • McCrary Road
  • Burwell Road
  • Peoples Road
  • Berkley Road
  • Harbin Road
  • Farrow Road
  • Ripple Lane
  • Kirby Lane
  • Towe Road
  • Ada Drive
  • Whitesburg Drive South
  • Old Madison Pike Northwest
  • Triana Boulevard Southwest
  • Wynn Drive Northwest
  • Drake Avenue Southeast
  • Jordan Road
  • Ledge View Drive
  • Church Street Northwest
  • Sanderson Road
  • Vermont Road Southwest
  • Villaret Drive Southwest
  • Balch Road
  • McCutcheon Loop Road
  • Southwest Rabbit Lane
  • Shadow Court
  • Bibb Garrett
  • Caldwell Lane
  • Southwest Barlowe Road
  • Nance Road
  • Sutton Road
  • Sixth Street
  • Logan Drive
  • Routt Road
  • Refuge Road
  • Ricky Road
  • Paul Drive
  • Airport Road Southwest
  • North Loop Road
  • Green Cove Road Southwest
  • Countess Road Northeast
  • Moores Mill Road
  • Old Highway 431
  • Drake Avenue Southwest
  • Huntsville Brownsferry Road
  • Blake Bottom Road Northwest
  • James Record Road Southwest
  • Overlook Road
  • Monte Vedra Road Southeast
  • Juniper Drive Northwest
  • Max Luther Drive Northwest
  • McMullen Lane
  • McCullough Avenue Northeast
  • Shields Road
  • Short Pike Road Southwest
  • Rountree Place
  • Clipper Lane
  • Westburg Avenue
  • Tumpkins Lane
  • Edgewater Drive
  • Buchanan Way
  • Sanlan Place
  • Heritage Brook Drive
  • Anslee Way
  • Round Bar Drive
  • Joel Drive

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

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  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

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Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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