Calvert is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
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 counte ...
(CDP) in
Mobile and
Washington counties,
Alabama
Alabama ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South, Deep Southern regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gu ...
, United States.
It is located in the extreme northeast corner of Mobile County and southeast corner of Washington County near the
Tombigbee River, along
U.S. Route 43. As of the
2020 census, the population of Calvert was 255.
German technology conglomerate
ThyssenKrupp broke ground on a US$4.65 billion
stainless and
carbon steel processing facility in Calvert in 2007. The facility became operational in July 2010.
ThyssenKrupp's stainless steel division, Inoxum, including the stainless portion of the Calvert plant, was sold to Finnish stainless steel company
Outokumpu in 2012. The remaining portion of the ThyssenKrupp plant, with a production capacity of 5.3 million metric tons that includes a hot strip mill, cold roll mill and four coating lines, was purchased by a 50/50 joint partnership of
ArcelorMittal and
Nippon Steel in February 2014 for $1.5 billion and renamed AM/NS Calvert. At the time, ThyssenKrupp was the region's 2nd largest industrial employer.
Demographics
''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''
2020 census
Education
Residents of the Mobile County section are zoned to
Mobile County Public School System campuses. Residents of that section are zoned to
Citronelle High School. The Mobile County section of the community was formerly in the attendance boundary of the Belsaw/MT. Vernon
K-8 school in
Mount Vernon,
[A copy of the school's attendance boundary, as the file "Belsaw Mt. Vernon.pdf", is available from the Mobile County Public School System Student Support Services Department]
This file was previously available online
(see "Elementary Attendance Zone Maps(A-I)" "Belsaw Mt Vernon" but the link is broken) which closed in 2016.
Residents of the Washington County section are served by
Washington County School District.
References
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Census-designated places in Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Alabama
Census-designated places in Mobile County, Alabama