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Black Gum Corners

Ghost town · Barbour County, Alabama

Texasville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)
Texasville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Black Gum Corners is a ghost town in Barbour County, Alabama. It is one of 12 former communities in Barbour County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 14th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Black Gum Corners as a historical populated place on the Texasville topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 31.6824° N, 85.4166° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleTexasville
Elevation516 ft
Nearest living townBlue Springs, AL
Distance to it5.3 miles
GNIS feature ID134760
Coordinates31.68239, -85.41660

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Black Gum Corners today, aerial view
Texasville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)

Left: Texasville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Black Gum Corners is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Blue Springs, AL (population 95), about 5.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 516 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Black Gum Corners?

Black Gum Corners is in Barbour County, Alabama, at 31.6824, -85.4166.

How many ghost towns are in Barbour County?

Barbour County, Alabama has 12 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.