Athens (Alabama)

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Athens
Browns Ferry Power Station
Browns Ferry Power Station
Location of Athens in Alabama
Limestone County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Athens Highlighted.svg
Basic data
Foundation : 1818
State : United States
State : Alabama
County : Limestone County
Coordinates : 34 ° 48 ′  N , 86 ° 58 ′  W Coordinates: 34 ° 48 ′  N , 86 ° 58 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Residents : 21,897 (as of 2010)
Population density : 214.9 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 102.1 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) of
which 101.9 km 2  (approx. 39 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 243.1 m
Postcodes : 35611-35614
Area code : +1 256
FIPS : 01-02956
GNIS ID : 0113266
Website : www.athensalabama.us
Mayor : William R. Marks

Athens is a city and the county seat of Limestone County in the US state of Alabama .

geography

Athens is located in northern Alabama in the southern United States. It is approximately 20 kilometers from the northern Tennessee border and 120 kilometers from the eastern Georgia border. The place is located directly on the Tennessee River .

Nearby places include Tanner (1 km south), Madison (7 km southeast), Huntsville (7 km east), Harvest (8 km east) and Elkmont (8 km north).

history

Athens was founded in 1818 by four settlers. The Athens Female Academy was founded in 1822 , the predecessor of today's Athens State University .

During the Civil War , the city was occupied and looted by Union soldiers in 1862.

For a long time Athens was considered the center of cotton and rail traffic, but since the 1950s and 1960s it has increasingly become a center of the aerospace industry, thanks in part to the industrially important neighboring city of Huntsville .

The Browns Ferry nuclear power station has been located south of the city since 1974 and was the largest in the world at the time. The 1975 Unite One fire is considered one of the worst nuclear accidents in United States history.

Demographics

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1850 991 -
1870 887 -
1880 1011 14%
1900 1010 -
1910 1715 69.8%
1920 3323 93.8%
1930 4233 27.4%
1940 4342 2.6%
1950 6309 45.3%
1960 9330 47.9%
1970 14,360 53.9%
1980 14,558 1.4%
1990 16,901 16.1%
2000 18,967 12.2%
2010 21,897 15.4%
2010

The 2000 census showed a population of 18,967, divided between 7742 households and 5140 families. The population density was 186 people per square kilometer. 77.7% of the population were white, 18.3% black, 0.7% Asian, 0.4% American Indian and 0.02% Pacific islander. 1.9% were of a different ethnicity , 0.9% had two or more races, and 4.9% were Hispanics or Latin Americans of any ethnicity. For every 100 women there were almost 90 men. The median age was 38 years and the per capita income was 19,315 US dollars, which put about 16.3% of the population below the poverty line.

By the 2010 census , the population had increased to 21,897.

traffic

US Highway 72 runs from west to east of the city, and US Highway 31 runs from north to south . To the east of this is Interstate 65 , which runs 1436 kilometers from Indiana to southern Alabama. Interstate 565 is a bypass road south of the city .

Huntsville International Airport is about 13 kilometers southeast of the city .

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Athens, Alabama  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Missouri Census Data Center  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 12, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / mcdc.missouri.edu  
  2. ↑ Extract from the Encyclopedia of Alabama . Retrieved February 12, 2011