The Bullock County Alabama map is best read around three spatial clues: Union Springs near the county’s central travel network, the east-west and north-south highway corridors, and the Chunnenuggee Ridge crossing the county’s interior. Because Bullock County has a large rural footprint and relatively few incorporated places, the distance between labels is part of the geography rather than empty space.
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The JPG file reproduces the county map used in the article and is suited to zooming, document placement, or side-by-side county comparison.
- Map file: Single Bullock County reference map
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- Coverage: County boundary and selected labeled places
Quick Facts
| State | Alabama |
|---|---|
| County | Bullock County |
| County seat | Union Springs |
| 2025 population estimate | 9,780 |
| 2020 land area | 622.82 square miles |
| Map file | JPG |
U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts gives Bullock County a July 1, 2025 population estimate of 9,780 and a 2020 land area of 622.82 square miles. Its 2020 population density was 16.6 people per square mile, a useful number for interpreting why settlements appear widely spaced across the county outline.
Bullock County’s government identifies Union Springs as the county seat, selected in February 1867 shortly after the county was organized. On a map, that status matters because Union Springs is the administrative anchor as well as the point around which the principal through-routes are easiest to orient.
What the Map Shows
Union Springs occupies the central transportation position on the page. ALDOT’s 2026 functional-classification map places U.S. 82 on an east-west course across the county and U.S. 29 on a north-south course through the central area, with Union Springs tied directly to both corridors. Those routes give the county outline a practical orientation toward Montgomery to the west and the Barbour-Pike side of southeastern Alabama.
Midway serves as a southeastern locator. The highway network around U.S. 82 and Alabama 51 connects that side of Bullock County toward Barbour County, so the Midway label marks more than a town name: it identifies the transition from the Union Springs core into the county’s eastern and southeastern rural landscape.
Fitzpatrick provides a contrasting locator toward the northwestern and north-central side. The county’s official community list also includes Aberfoil, Guerryton, Hector, Inverness, Perote, Thompson, and Three Notch, among others. Their absence from the graphic is a reminder that the map is selective; the labeled places are orientation points within a much denser network of small communities.
County Layout and Location
Bullock County lies in southeastern inland Alabama. Montgomery County is to the west, Macon County to the north, Russell County to the northeast, Barbour County along the east and southeast, and Pike County to the southwest. ALDOT regional transportation material places Bullock on the eastern side of the South Central Alabama region, which matches the county’s road connections toward both central and southeastern Alabama.
The interior is not simply flat prairie. Bullock County’s own description states that the Chunnenuggee Ridge runs through the center of the county. USGS regional geohydrology describes the broader Chunnenuggee Hills as a belt of sandy cuestas with steeper escarpments and rolling backslopes, a landform pattern that gives the county’s central uplands a distinct role in drainage and local relief.
That upland belt acts as a watershed divide. USGS describes drainage from the Chunnenuggee Hills as trending south and southwest toward the Conecuh and Pea Rivers, with other drainage extending southeastward. The Conecuh River rises in Bullock County close to the headwaters of the Pea River, so the county contains headwater terrain feeding separate Gulf-draining river systems rather than one dominant river valley.
The Pea River relationship becomes concrete near Perote. The USGS Pea River near Perote site is in Bullock County, within hydrologic unit 03140202, and records a drainage area of 96.8 square miles. Alabama environmental monitoring also treats Johnson Creek in Bullock County as part of the Upper Pea River and the larger Choctawhatchee River basin, documenting the southeastern side as headwater country rather than a downstream floodplain.
Local Context
Bullock County was created on December 5, 1866 from portions of Macon, Barbour, Pike, and Montgomery Counties. The county government says it was named for Edward C. Bullock of Barbour County. Union Springs, incorporated earlier in 1844, became the county seat in 1867 and subsequently concentrated courthouse functions, commerce, rail access, and cotton warehousing.
That historic concentration still affects the modern map. County offices remain in Union Springs, and Franklin Field Airport appears near the city on ALDOT mapping. The result is a county where one relatively small city carries an outsized administrative and transportation role while numerous smaller communities are dispersed across the surrounding rural area.
Union Springs is also closely associated with bird-dog field trials and managed quail habitat. A 2025 Alabama Conservation Advisory Board record refers to Union Springs as a longstanding field-trial center. For map interpretation, the important point is land use: large rural tracts and hunting properties help explain why settlement remains sparse outside the main road corridors.
Ways to Use This Map
For a location comparison, start at Union Springs and trace U.S. 82 east-west and U.S. 29 north-south. Then use Midway and Fitzpatrick as directional checks. This sequence turns three labels into a simple framework for estimating where the eastern, southern, and northwestern parts of the county sit relative to the administrative center.
For physical geography, treat the Chunnenuggee Ridge as a dividing feature rather than following the political boundary alone. Pairing that upland with the Pea and Conecuh headwaters explains why streams on opposite sides of the central hills ultimately enter different drainage systems, a county-specific feature that is not apparent from place names alone.
- Orient Union Springs with the U.S. 82 and U.S. 29 corridors
- Compare Midway and Fitzpatrick as opposite-side location markers
- Relate the Chunnenuggee uplands to Pea and Conecuh headwaters
- Place the JPG beside neighboring county maps for boundary comparison
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the map show every city and community?
No. Bullock County’s official community list includes places such as Aberfoil, Guerryton, Hector, Inverness, Perote, Thompson, and Three Notch in addition to the labels used here. The graphic deliberately keeps only a small set of orientation points so the county shape and relative positions remain readable.
Can the map be printed?
The JPG can be inserted into a document or presentation and printed from there. Print sharpness will depend on the source pixel dimensions, scaling, and printer settings, so check place-name legibility in print preview before enlarging it to a large sheet.
What does the download include?
The button links to the single Bullock County JPG used for the page, containing the county boundary and the selected place labels. It is not a package of GIS boundary files, road datasets, or separate cartographic layers.
Related Alabama County Maps
The county can be compared with the Alabama maps below to see how settlement spacing, road orientation, and county shape change across the state. Viewing several counties together is especially helpful when separating southeastern Alabama’s inland ridge-and-headwater setting from other parts of Alabama.
Sources
- Bullock County official About page
- U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
- ALDOT Bullock County Highway Functional Classification System
- USGS Pea River near Perote site
- Encyclopedia of Alabama: Bullock County
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