Hollis Crossroads, AL

Hollis Crossroads is an unincorporated Cleburne County community at the meeting point of U.S. Route 431 and Alabama State Route 9, where the 2020 census counted 665 residents. Route 431 runs between Anniston and Wedowee, while State Route 9 connects Lineville with Heflin. Their intersection gives Hollis Crossroads a clear place in east-central Alabama, with long roads carrying residents toward the surrounding foothill communities.

Pleasant Grove Elementary School is located in the community, making education one of the few named civic places in this crossroads settlement. The school also gives the intersection a practical daily destination for families arriving from the rural roads around it. Hollis Crossroads has no incorporated city government; its census-designated place identity follows the built-up area around the two routes. The daily map is therefore a school, an intersection, and the roads leading toward Anniston, Wedowee, Lineville, and Heflin. The name tells you how to find it: follow the route to the crossroads, then look for the community that grew around them.