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Shoemaker Springs

Ghost town · Limestone County, Alabama

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

Shoemaker Springs is a ghost town in Limestone County, Alabama. It is one of 6 former communities in Limestone County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 16th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Shoemaker Springs as a historical populated place on the Cairo 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 34.8445° N, 87.1828° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCairo
Elevation567 ft
Nearest living townRogersville, AL
Distance to it5.9 miles
GNIS feature ID138693
Coordinates34.84453, -87.18279

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.

Shoemaker Springs today, aerial view
Cairo quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Cairo 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

Shoemaker Springs is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Rogersville, AL (population 1,260), about 5.9 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 567 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 Shoemaker Springs?

Shoemaker Springs is in Limestone County, Alabama, at 34.8445, -87.1828.

How many ghost towns are in Limestone County?

Limestone County, Alabama has 6 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.