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Dale

Ghost town · Blount County, Alabama

Leeds quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1905, 1:62,500)
Leeds quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1905, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Dale is a ghost town in Blount County, Alabama. It is one of 5 former communities in Blount County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 17th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Dale as a historical populated place on the Irondale 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 33.6104° N, 86.6492° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleIrondale
Elevation906 ft
Nearest living townGrayson Valley, AL
Distance to it2.5 miles
GNIS feature ID135092
Coordinates33.61038, -86.64915

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.

Dale today, aerial view
Leeds quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1905, 1:62,500)

Left: Leeds quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1905, 1:62,500), 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

Dale is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Grayson Valley, AL (population 5,882), about 2.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 906 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 Dale?

Dale is in Blount County, Alabama, at 33.6104, -86.6492.

How many ghost towns are in Blount County?

Blount County, Alabama has 5 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.