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Matilda

Ghost town · Tallapoosa County, Alabama

Buttston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)
Buttston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Matilda is a ghost town in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It is one of 22 former communities in Tallapoosa County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 8th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Matilda as a historical populated place on the Buttston 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 32.9682° N, 85.6847° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleButtston
Elevation642 ft
Nearest living townDaviston, AL
Distance to it6.8 miles
GNIS feature ID137471
Coordinates32.96818, -85.68468

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.

Matilda today, aerial view
Buttston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: Buttston quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 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

Matilda is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Daviston, AL (population 199), about 6.8 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 642 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 Matilda?

Matilda is in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, at 32.9682, -85.6847.

How many ghost towns are in Tallapoosa County?

Tallapoosa County, Alabama has 22 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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