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Coal Springs

Ghost town · Barbour County, Alabama

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

Coal Springs 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 Coal Springs as a historical populated place on the Elamville 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 31.6613° N, 85.6638° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleElamville
Elevation433 ft
Nearest living townClio, AL
Distance to it4.5 miles
GNIS feature ID134772
Coordinates31.66128, -85.66383

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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.

Coal Springs today, aerial view
Elamville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1969, 1:24,000)

Left: Elamville 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

Coal Springs is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Clio, AL (population 1,393), about 4.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 433 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 Coal Springs?

Coal Springs is in Barbour County, Alabama, at 31.6613, -85.6638.

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.