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Tuscaloosa, Alabama Metropolitan Area
The Tuscaloosa metropolitan area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties in west central Alabama, anchored by the city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa. As of the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 268,674. Counties *Hale County, Alabama, Hale *Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Tuscaloosa *Greene County, Alabama, Greene *Pickens County, Alabama, Pickens Communities Places with more than 100,000 inhabitants *Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Principal city) Places with 15,000 to 25,000 inhabitants *Northport, Alabama, Northport Places with 1,000 to 5,000 inhabitants *Brookwood, Alabama, Brookwood *Coaling, Alabama, Coaling *Cottondale, Alabama, Cottondale (census-designated place) *Eutaw, Alabama, Eutaw *Greensboro, Alabama, Greensboro *Holt, Alabama, Holt (census-designated place) *Lake View, Alabama, Lake View *Moundville, Alabama, Moundville Places with 500 to 1,000 inhabitants *Akron, Alabama, Akr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pickens County, Alabama
Pickens County is a County (United States), county located on the west central border of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,123. Its county seat is Carrollton, Alabama, Carrollton, located in the center of the county. It is a prohibition, or dry county, although the communities of Carrollton and Aliceville voted to become wet in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Pickens County is included in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama metropolitan area History Like the rest of Alabama, this had long been occupied by Native Americans; historically the Muscogee people (Creek) dominated this area. Pickens County was established on the western border of Alabama on December 20, 1820, and named for American Revolutionary War, revolutionary war hero General Andrew Pickens (congressman), Andrew Pickens of South Carolina. The county seat was relocated from Pickensville, Alabama, Pickensville to Carrollton, Alabama, Carrollton in 1830. Less than on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coker, Alabama
Coker is a town in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1999. At the 2020 census, the population was 904. It is part of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Coker is located at (33.246283, -87.679221). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 979 people, 365 households, and 280 families residing in the town. There were 428 housing units. The racial makeup of the town was 95.20% White, 2.00% Black or African American, 0.20% Native American, 0.90% Asian, 0.15% from other races, and 0.10% from two or more races. 1.80% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 304 households, out of which 37.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.2% were married couples living together, 8.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.0% were non-families. 19.4% of all households were made up of i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akron, Alabama
Akron () is a town in Hale County, Alabama, United States. On January 18, 1906, landowners Charles E. Waller, Charles Lightman and M.H. Murphy sold at public auction a great number of individual business and residential lots which would be developed into the town of Akron, Alabama. Akron became the fastest growing town in Hale County, and in a few years had grown to include a modern post office, railroad depot, various retail businesses, barber shop, hotel, drug store, concrete and block factory, wheel spoke factory, lumber mills, and attractive residences. The town was incorporated in March 1918. At the 2010 census the population was 356, down from 521 at the 2000 census. Akron has one site on the National Register of Historic Places, the Greek Revival cottage known as Tanglewood. Geography Akron is located in northwestern Hale County at (32.876425, -87.740978), southeast of the Black Warrior River and northwest of Alabama State Route 60. Greensboro, the Hale County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moundville, Alabama
Moundville is a town in Hale and Tuscaloosa counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. The US Census Bureau names it as Moundville town, but the town calls itself the City of Moundville. At the 2020 census the population was 3,024. It is part of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area. Within the town is Moundville Archaeological Site, the location of a prehistoric Mississippian culture political and ceremonial center. History Moundville was incorporated on December 22, 1908. From its incorporation until the 1970 census, it was wholly within Hale County. In the 1930s, the photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee documented the lives of tenant farmers living in the Moundville area in the books '' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men'' (1941) and the posthumously published ''Cotton Tenants'' (2013). Geography Moundville is located in northern Hale County at (32.998521, -87.626006), on the south side of the Black Warrior River. The town limits extend north into Tuscaloosa Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake View, Alabama
Lake View is a city in Alabama, United States, with the majority of the city located within Tuscaloosa County and with a small portion of the city located in Jefferson County. At the 2020 census the population was 3,560, up from 1,943 in 2010. It is part of the Tuscaloosa Metropolitan Statistical Area (the Tuscaloosa County portion) and the Birmingham metropolitan area (the Jefferson County portion). It is located approximately halfway between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham via Interstates 20 and 59. History Lake View was incorporated in 1998. Geography Lake View is located at (33.279933, -87.138667). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and (12.57%) is water. Demographics At the 2020 census there were 3,560 people, 1,377 households, and 1,258 families in the town. The population density was . There were 475 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 97.35% White, 0.81% Black or African Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holt, Alabama
Holt is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 3,413. It is part of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area. Geography Holt is located at (33.230467, -87.486303). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has a total area of , all land. Demographics Holt first appeared on the census in 1950 as the unincorporated community of Holt-Fox. It did not reappear again until 1990 when it was classified as a census-designated place (CDP) as Holt. As of the census of 2000, there were 4,103 people, 1,785 households, and 1,252 families living in the community. The population density was . There were 2,006 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the community was 51.67% White, 47.04% Black or African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.02% Asian, 0.12% from other races, and 0.71% from two or more races. 1.49% of the population were Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greensboro, Alabama
Greensboro is a city in Hale County, Alabama, Hale County, Alabama, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census the population was 2,497, down from 2,731 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Hale County, Alabama, which was not organized until 1867. It is part of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Greensboro was incorporated as a town in December 1823 as "Greensborough". It was named in honor of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The name was soon simplified to "Greensboro". The community was known as "Troy" prior to incorporation. Reflecting the history of the antebellum years and a culture built on cotton plantations to produce the commodity crop, several sites on the National Register of Historic Places in or near Greensboro are connected to this past. These include Glencairn (Greensboro, Alabama), Glencairn, the Greensboro Historic District (Greensboro, Alabama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eutaw, Alabama
Eutaw ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Greene County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 2,937. The city was named in honor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last engagement of the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas. History Eutaw was laid out in December 1838 at the time that Greene County voters chose to relocate the county seat from Erie, which was located on the Black Warrior River. It was incorporated by an act of the state legislature on January 2, 1841. As the county seat, Eutaw also developed as the trading center for the county, which developed an economy based on cultivation and processing of cotton, the chief commodity crop in the antebellum years. The crop was lucrative for major planters, who depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans and built fine homes in the city. Many have been preserved. Eutaw has twenty-seven antebellum structures on the National Register of Historic Places. Twenty-three of these are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Census-designated Place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 as self-governing city (United States), cities, town (United States), towns, and village (United States), villages, for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated area, unincorporated community, for which the CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, Edge city, edge cities, colonia (United States), colonias located along the Mexico–United States border, and unincorporated resort and retirement community, retirement communities and their environs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottondale, Alabama
Cottondale is a census-designated place in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States, now encompassed in the eastern suburbs of Tuscaloosa. The ZIP Code is 35453. Alternative spellings include Cotton Dale, Kennedale, Kennidale and Konnidale. Cottondale was the site of cotton mills where the Knights of Labor had some success in organizing drives in the late 1880s; and where "Mother" Jones worked in 1904 while studying conditions for working women and children in the South. Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.... Tiny babies of six years old with faces of sixty did an eight-hour shift for ten cents a day.... The machines, built in the north, were built low for the hands of little children. Cottondale was originally called Kennedale in honor of Joseph Kennedy, one of the owners of a local cotton mill. In 1876, the name was changed to Cottondale for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coaling, Alabama
Coaling is a town in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in September 1997. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 2,035. It is part of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa metropolitan area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History On 2011 Super Outbreak, April 27, 2011, parts of Coaling were devastated by an EF-3 tornado at approximately 5:15 a.m. Three homes were completely destroyed, at least ten others were severely damaged, and twice as many more sustained light damage. Though there were no fatalities, some residents were hospitalized for injuries. Geography Coaling is located at (33.169442, -87.345859). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city had a total area of , of which is land and (1.61%) is water. Government The city employs three police officers. Demographics Coaling first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the village of Coaling Station. It did not appear again as a separat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
