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Muscle Shoals

Muscle Shoals is the largest city in , Alabama, United States. It is located on the left bank of the in the northern part of the state and, as of the 2010 census, its population was 13,146.
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  • Type: Town with 16,300 residents
  • Description: city in Alabama, USA
  • Also known as: “Chustanaluyi”, “Dagunahi”, “Muscle Shoals, AL”, “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”, “Quad Cities”, “The Shoals”, and “Tri-Cities”
  • Postal codes: 35661 and 35662
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Muscle Shoals High School and Southgate Mall.

School
, is the sole public secondary education institution in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The school has been awarded the Blue Ribbon Lighthouse Award for Excellence.

Shopping center
Photo: Windyshadow32, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an enclosed shopping mall in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Around 2005 the inside of the mall closed and the businesses that remained moved to the outside of the mall.

Recording studio
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
is a recording studio located at 603 East Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, United States, an area of northern Alabama known as the Shoals.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tuscumbia and Sheffield.

Photo: Dailynetworks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small town in near Wheeler Lake and Wilson Lakes, best known as the birthplace of the famous deaf-blind activist and author, Helen Keller.

Village
Photo: SistahFee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in , , United States, and is included in the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. The population was 9,403 at the 2020 census. and was estimated to be 9,307 in 2023. is situated 3 miles northwest of Muscle Shoals.

Hamlet
Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as The Village and Nitrate Plant Number 1 Reservation Subdivision, is an unincorporated community in , in the . is situated 3½ miles west of Muscle Shoals.

Muscle Shoals

Latitude
34.74368° or 34° 44′ 37″ north
Longitude
-87.65326° or 87° 39′ 12″ west
Population
16,300
Elevation
499 feet (152 metres)
IATA airport code
MSL
United Nations Location Code
US USH
Open location code
866JP8VW+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153543632
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4078964
Wiki­data ID
Q79245
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Muscle Shoals” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مسل شولس”
  • Basque: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Catalan: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Cebuano: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەسل شۆلس، ئەلاباما”
  • Central Kurdish: “مەسل شۆلس”
  • Chechen: “Масл-Шолс”
  • Chinese: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Chinese: “马斯尔肖尔斯”
  • Czech: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Danish: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Dutch: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مسل شولس”
  • French: “Muscle Shoals”
  • German: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Gilaki: “مسکل شولتز”
  • Haitian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Hebrew: “מאסל שולס”
  • Hungarian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Ido: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Ido: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Indonesian: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Indonesian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Irish: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Italian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Japanese: “マッスル・ショールズ”
  • Japanese: “マッスルショールズ”
  • Korean: “머슬 숄스”
  • Korean: “머슬숄스”
  • Ladin: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Malagasy: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Malagasy: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Mazanderani: “ماسل شائولز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Newari: “मशल शोल्स (अलाबामा)”
  • Newari: “मशल शोल्स, अलाबामा”
  • Newari: “मशल शोल्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Norwegian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Muscle Shoals”
  • Persian: “ماسل شائولز، آلاباما”
  • Persian: “ماسل شائولز، الاباما”
  • Persian: “ماسل شائولز”
  • Polish: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Portuguese: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Russian: “Маскл Шолс”
  • Serbian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Serbian: “Масл Шоулс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Slovak: “Muscle Shoals”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماسل شائولز، آلاباما”
  • Spanish: “Muscle Shoals (Alabama)”
  • Spanish: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Swedish: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Swedish: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Tatar: “Масл-Шолс”
  • Turkish: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Turkish: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Ukrainian: “Маскл-Шолс”
  • Ukrainian: “Масл-Шолс”
  • Uzbek: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Vietnamese: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Vietnamese: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Volapük: “Muscle Shoals”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Muscle Shoals”
  • Welsh: “Muscle Shoals, Alabama”
  • Welsh: “Muscle Shoals”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include James F Moore Stadium / Dennis Homan Field and Muscle Shoals Police Department.

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