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Turkey Town

Ghost town · Cherokee County, Alabama

Centre quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)
Centre quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Turkey Town is a ghost town in Cherokee County, Alabama, recorded as human settlement in United States of America. It is one of 13 former communities in Cherokee County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 12th among the 53 Alabama counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Turkey Town as a historical populated place on the Centre 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 34.1362° N, 85.6916° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleCentre
Nearest living townCentre, AL
Distance to it1.6 miles
GNIS feature ID136995
Coordinates34.13621, -85.69163

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.

Turkey Town today, aerial view
Centre quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 1:24,000)

Left: Centre quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1967, 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

Turkey Town is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Centre, AL (population 3,664), about 1.6 miles away in a straight line. 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 Turkey Town?

Turkey Town is in Cherokee County, Alabama, at 34.1362, -85.6916.

How many ghost towns are in Cherokee County?

Cherokee County, Alabama has 13 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.