Baldwin County, Alabama

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Baldwin County Courthouse
Baldwin County Courthouse
administration
US state : Alabama
Administrative headquarters : Bay minette
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		Baldwin County
1 Court Square
P.O. Box 239
Bay Minette, AL 36507
Foundation : December 21, 1809
Made up from: Washington County
Area code : 001 251
Demographics
Residents : 182,265  (2010)
Population density : 44.3 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 5,248.5 km²
Water surface : 1,132.7 km²
map
Map of Baldwin County within Alabama
Website : www.co.baldwin.al.us

The Baldwin County is a county in the US state of Alabama . The county seat is Bay Minette .

geography

The county is located almost in the extreme southwest of Alabama, borders Florida in the southeast and Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico in the southwest . It has an area of ​​5,248.5 square kilometers, of which 1,132.7 square kilometers are water. The following neighboring counties border Baldwin County:

Washington County Clarke County
Monroe County ,
Escambia County
Mobile County compass Escambia County
(Florida)

Islands

In the Gulf of Mexico there are a number of islands off the mainland and Mobile Bay, which belong to Baldwin County:

history

A. Baldwin
Fort Morgan has been a National Historic Landmark since December 1960 .

The area was a settlement area of ​​the Mississippi culture , of which the Bottle Creek Indian Mounds evidence is evidence. Because of its location on the Gulf, the county was the catchment area of ​​the earliest European reconnaissance missions in the southern part of what is now the United States. From the middle of the 16th century it was successively in the hands of the Spanish , French and British. With the Peace of Paris , Baldwin County became the territory of the United States. In 1798 it went up in the newly created Mississippi Territory . Baldwin County was formed from parts of Washington County by resolution of the State Legislature of the Alabama Territory on December 21, 1809 , ten years before Alabama became a state . It was named after Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807), one of the founding fathers of the United States, field preacher in the American Revolutionary War and delegate to the Second Continental Congress and the United States Constitutional Convention . From 1789 to 1807, he was for Georgia representative in the Senate or in the House of Representatives .

The first county seat was McIntosh Bluff and from 1810 Blakeley, which it remained until the end of the Civil War . During the Creek War , the county was the site of the Fort Mims massacre in August 1813, in which a faction of the Muskogee killed more than 250 settlers, militia members and members of the opposing faction. During the civil war, the Confederates used the salt deposits on the Gulf. During the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864, Fort Morgan was a highly competitive position in which the USS Tecumseh was sunk. In April 1865, the county saw the last major ground combat of the Civil War with the Battle of Fort Blakeley , which resulted in nearly 2,000 dead and wounded. In February 1901, Bay Minette replaced Daphne , which had been the county seat since 1868. When the local courthouse refused to surrender its documents to the new capital, they were stolen by citizens of Bay Minette in October 1901.

62 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (as of March 28, 2020), with the archaeological site Bottle Creek Indian Mounds and Fort Morgan have the status of a National Historic Landmark .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1820 1713 -
1830 2324 35.7%
1840 2951 27%
1850 4414 49.6%
1860 7530 70.6%
1870 6004 -20.3%
1880 8603 43.3%
1890 8941 3.9%
1900 13,194 47.6%
1910 18,178 37.8%
1920 20,730 14%
1930 28,289 36.5%
1940 32,324 14.3%
1950 40.997 26.8%
1960 49,088 19.7%
1970 59,382 21%
1980 78,556 32.3%
1990 98,280 25.1%
2000 172.757 75.8%
2010 182.265 5.5%
1820-1890

1900–1990 2000 & 2010

The lighthouse Sand Island Light was registered in the NRHP in November 1975.

Baldwin County, (FIPS # 1003), had 182,265 people in 69,476 households according to the 2010 census . The population density was 71.24 people per square kilometer, a change of 2.4 percent compared to the 2000 census. The racial the population was composed of 87.3 percent white, 9.7 percent African American, 0.7 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian, 0.1 percent Hawaiian and residents from the Pacific island area. 1.4 percent came from two or more races, 4.5 percent of the population were of Hispanic or Latin American descent.

Of the 69,476 households, 28.8 percent had children or adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. The average household size was 2.50 people, 17.1 percent were 65 years of age or older and 20,396 people were veterans. 93,320 (51.2 percent) were female and 88,945 (48.8 percent) were male.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 69,476 , and the median income is $ 26,469.

In 2010 there were 19,035 businesses in the county, of which 2.7 percent were owned by African Americans, 0.4 percent by Native Americans, 1.0 percent by Asian people, 1.3 percent by Hispanic or Latin American people, and 27.3 Percent were run by women.

cities and communes

Citys

Towns

Census-designated place (CDP)

other unincorporated communities

See also

literature

  • Thomas McAdory Owen: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. SJ Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago IL 1921.
  • Virginia O. Foscue: Place Names in Alabama. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa et al. a. 1989, ISBN 0-8173-0410-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 161527. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ Baldwin County at alabama.gov ( Memento from April 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ National Association of Counties.Retrieved November 29, 2011
  4. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Alabama. National Park Service , accessed May 13, 2020.
  5. ↑ Charles Curry Aiken, Joseph Nathan Kane: The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, Area, and Population Data, 1950-2010 . 6th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8762-6 , p. 14.
    Thomas Chase Hagood: Territorial Period and Early Statehood in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, February 23, 2017, accessed May 13, 2020.
    Patricia Hoskins Morton: Baldwin County in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, February 23, 2018, accessed May 13, 2020.
  6. ↑ Sarah Lawless, Bay Minette in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, January 19, 2018, accessed May 13, 2020.
    Patricia Hoskins Morton: Baldwin County in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, February 23, 2018, accessed May 13, 2020.
    Jennifer Thompson - Messina: Daphne in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, January 11, 2019, accessed May 13, 2020.
  7. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 28, 2020.
    Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 28, 2020.
    Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Alabama. National Park Service , accessed March 28, 2020.
  8. ^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing.Retrieved February 17, 2011
  9. ^ Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 15, 2011
  10. ^ Population of Baldwin County - Alabama
  11. ^ Sand Island Light in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 13, 2020.
  12. ↑ Census Datasheet ( Memento from September 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 21, 2012

Web links

Commons : Baldwin County, Alabama  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Coordinates: 30 ° 44 ′  N , 87 ° 43 ′  W