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Puryearville

Ghost town · Monroe County, Alabama

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

Puryearville is a ghost town in Monroe County, Alabama. It is one of 4 former communities in Monroe County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 24th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Puryearville as a historical populated place on the Burnt Corn 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 31.5474° N, 87.1900° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleBurnt Corn
Elevation404 ft
Nearest living townPeterman, AL
Distance to it5 miles
GNIS feature ID151458
Coordinates31.54738, -87.18998

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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.

Puryearville today, aerial view
Burnt Corn quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1971, 1:24,000)

Left: Burnt Corn 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

Puryearville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Peterman, AL (population 26), about 5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 404 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 Puryearville?

Puryearville is in Monroe County, Alabama, at 31.5474, -87.1900.

How many ghost towns are in Monroe County?

Monroe County, Alabama has 4 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 2026-11-06.