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Rocky Hill

Ghost town · Lawrence County, Alabama

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

Rocky Hill is a ghost town in Lawrence County, Alabama. It is one of 4 former communities in Lawrence County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 21st among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Rocky Hill as a historical populated place on the Courtland 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 34.6854° N, 87.3634° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCourtland
Elevation597 ft
Nearest living townCourtland, AL
Distance to it2.3 miles
GNIS feature ID1700450
Coordinates34.68537, -87.36336

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.

Rocky Hill today, aerial view
Courtland quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1936, 1:24,000)

Left: Courtland 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

Rocky Hill is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Courtland, AL (population 777), about 2.3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 597 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 Rocky Hill?

Rocky Hill is in Lawrence County, Alabama, at 34.6854, -87.3634.

How many ghost towns are in Lawrence County?

Lawrence 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.