To contact Alabama Maps, please email alabama.maps.ua.edu for questions about copyright, obtaining full-resolution files, or with any questions about our current transition.

Alabama Maps has been providing maps to the public online since 2000. Our goal is to provide access to the University of Alabama's map collection in the hopes of promoting and supporting geographic research and education.

Although most of our collection focuses on historic Alabama, our collection spans the entire globe from the 1600s to the mid-2010s. Highlights of our collection include historical aerial photography from the 1930-1990s, many of the maps published by the Geological Survey of Alabama, and many world and regional maps from historical atlases. As we grow, we hope to provide access to even more Alabama GIS data and resources.

Alabama Maps was created and maintained by the UA Cartography Lab until 2023. We thank the generosity and commitment of everyone who worked in the lab or has contributed time, content, or funds over the last two decades, as this site was made possible by all of you. If you wish to be credited with your contributions, please send an email so we can cite you properly.

This web site is divided into four sections: the Contemporary Map Index, the Historical Map Index, Aerial Photography Index, and the Interactive Maps.

Contemporary Map Index
The Contemporary Map collection contains the Cartographic Research Lab’s computer-generated maps. Most of these maps were created c. 2010, so they are technically contemporary, but not recent.

Historical Maps Index
The Historical Map Archive is a digitized collection of selected map holdings from the University of Alabama Map Library, the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the Rucker Agee Collection of the Birmingham Public Library, the Geological Survey of Alabama, the Alabama Department of Archives and History, and several private collections. We are indebted to these organizations for their cooperation in facilitating the introduction of these digitial maps to the Internet.

Aerial Photography Index
The Aerial Photography Index contains a digitized selection of historic aerial photography found at the Geological Survey of Alabama and the University of Alabama Map Library.
The photos found in this index are but a small part of the total collection of nearly 150,000 photographs housed in these facilities. Please send us an email if you wish to have any of our not-listed images scanned.
The scale of these photographs vary due to the altitude of flight, but most have a scale of about 1:20,000.

Feedback
We thank the community for their continued support over the last few years during this awkward transition. Without your interest and testimonials, the future of this website would have been much more uncertain.

As we breathe new life into Alabama Maps, please send any support, testimonials, or feedback to alabama.maps@ua.edu.

If you have used our maps in any projects, publications, or personal research, we would love to hear about it for our own documentation!