Summerdale, Alabama
Summerdale is a rural town in south-central Baldwin County, Alabama, Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is the site of the Naval Outlying Landing Field Summerdale. At the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 1,468. It is part of the Daphne, Alabama, Daphne–Fairhope, Alabama, Fairhope–Foley, Alabama, Foley Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Summerdale is located at 30°29'15.468" North, 87°42'4.036" West (30.487630, -87.701121). Alabama State Route 59 passes along the west side of the town, leading north to Robertsdale, Alabama, Robertsdale and south to Foley, Alabama, Foley. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.38%, is water. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,468 people, 405 households, and 267 families residing in the town. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 655 people, 255 households, and 184 families residing ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  

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 ...
[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]