Douglas, Alabama
Douglas is a town in Marshall County, Alabama, United States. Douglas, a part of the Huntsville–Decatur Combined Statistical Area, had a population of 761 as of the 2020 census. The town incorporated in 1978. History Douglas was first settled in the mid-19th century. Its first school was built in 1898, followed by Douglas Academy in 1909.James P. Kaetz,Douglas" ''Encyclopedia of Alabama'', 2013. Geography Douglas is located in southern Marshall County at (34.171631, -86.319967). The town is concentrated around the intersection of State Route 75 and State Route 168, southwest of Albertville, west of Boaz, and northeast of Snead. Guntersville Lake lies to the north. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town of Douglas has a total area of , of which , or 0.24%, are water. Douglas sits at above sea level atop the southwest end of Sand Mountain, within the watershed of the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, which passes to the southwest of the town. Demograph ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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