Tibbie is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

and

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Washington County,

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, United States. Its population was 41 as of the 2010 census. The Red Alabama Blackmouth Cur is thought to have originated in the area around Tibbie in the 1940s.

Demographics

History

The name Tibbie comes from a shortened form of the

Choctaw The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are ...

word "oakibbeha". Oakibbeha means "blocks of ice therein," with ''okti'' meaning "ice" and the plural form ''abeha'' meaning "to be in". A post office first began operations under the name Tibbie in 1910.

References

Census-designated places in Washington County, Alabama Census-designated places in Alabama Alabama placenames of Native American origin {{WashingtonCountyAL-geo-stub