Arab (Alabama)

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Arab
Main Street
Main Street
County and state location
Cullman County and Marshall County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Arab Highlighted 0102116.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1892 (inc.)
State : United States
State : Alabama
Counties : Marshall County
Cullman County
Coordinates : 34 ° 20 ′  N , 86 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 20 ′  N , 86 ° 30 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 8,050 (as of 2010)
Population density : 243.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 33.3 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 ) of
which 33.1 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 336 m
Postal code : 35016
Area code : +1 256,938
FIPS : 01-02116
GNIS ID : 0113194
Website : www.arabcity.org
Mayor : Bob Joslin

Arab is a city in Marshall County in the US state of Alabama . In 2010 it had 8050 inhabitants.

geography

Arab is located in northeast Alabama in the southern United States, on the Brindlee Mountain , about 7 kilometers west of the 28,000 ha large Guntersville Lake , close to the Wheeler Lake and 733 square kilometers of William B. Bankhead National Forest . The coordinates of Arabs are 34 ° 20 ′  N , 86 ° 30 ′  W (34.327863, −86.498613). Nearby locations include Union Grove (4 km northeast), Baileyton (5 km southwest), Fairview (11 km southwest), and Eva (12 km west). The next larger city with 170,000 inhabitants is Huntsville, about 20 kilometers to the north .

Most of the City's area is south of Marshall County, but a small portion extends into neighboring Cullman County . From north to south, Arab is crossed by US Highway 231 , which runs 1,468 kilometers from Indiana to Florida . It is crossed by the east-west connection Alabama State Route 69 , which runs through the Central Business District of Arabs.

According to the United States Census Bureau , Arab has a total area of ​​34.86 km 2 , of which 34.51 km 2 is land and 0.35 km 2 is water. The altitude of Arabs in the Geographic Names Information System is 336 m above sea level.

history

Arab was founded by Stephen Tuttle Thompson in the 1840s and was originally known as Thompson's Village. The current name of the city goes back to an unintentional misspelling in 1882 by the US Postal Service , when the latter incorrectly entered the name of the city after Arad Thompson, the son of the city founder, when the application for the establishment of a post office was wrong. Arad was one of three names proposed to the Postal Service, along with Ink and Bird . Arab is considered an unusual place name.

Arab was incorporated in 1892.

Up until 1990, Arab was a sundown town where signs warned black people not to stay in Arab after dark, and historically they were banned from the city during the day too. In recent years, too, propaganda material from the Ku Klux Klan has been confiscated again and again . The state of Alabama is 26% black, but in Arab only 0.18% of the population declared themselves black.

Demographics

At the 2000 census, Arab had 7,174 residents, spread across 3,012 households and 2,075 families. The population density was thus 216.9 inhabitants / km². 98.29% of the population were white and 0.18% were African American. Children under the age of 18 lived in 31.2% of households. The median income was $ 36,716 per household, with 10% of the population living below the poverty line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Arab city, Alabama ( English ) US Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  2. ↑ US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990 . United States Census Bureau . February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  3. ↑ US Census Bureau QuickFacts: Arab city, Alabama. US Census Bureau , accessed May 31, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Arab ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Accessed May 31, 2020.
  5. ↑ James P. Kaetz: Arab . Encyclopedia of Alabama, 2013.
  6. ↑ Quentin Parker: Welcome to Horneytown, North Carolina, Population: 15: An insider's guide to 201 of the world's weirdest and wildest places . Adams Media, 2010.
  7. ↑ Virginia Foscue: Place Names in Alabama . University of Alabama Press, 1989.
  8. ↑ James W. Loewen : Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism . The New Press , New York 2005, ISBN 156584887X , pp. 347, 380.
  9. ↑ Cullman's 'sundown town' image worthy of study . Retrieved November 2, 2019. 
  10. ^ KKK propaganda found in Arab for the second time in months . December 8, 2015. Accessed May 29, 2020. 

Web links

Commons : Arab, Alabama  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files