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Fowler

Ghost town · Blount County, Alabama

Brooksville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)
Brooksville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Fowler 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 Fowler as a historical populated place on the Brooksville 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 34.2084° N, 86.4264° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBrooksville
Elevation700 ft
Nearest living townDouglas, AL
Distance to it6.5 miles
GNIS feature ID135192
Coordinates34.20843, -86.42637

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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.

Fowler today, aerial view
Brooksville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Brooksville quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 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

Fowler is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Douglas, AL (population 1,153), about 6.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 700 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 Fowler?

Fowler is in Blount County, Alabama, at 34.2084, -86.4264.

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.