Bibb County, Alabama

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Bibb County Courthouse
Bibb County Courthouse
administration
US state : Alabama
Administrative headquarters : Centerville
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		Bibb County Clerk
157 SW Davidson Drive
Centerville, AL 35042
Foundation : February 7, 1818
Made up from: Monroe County
Montgomery County
Area code : 001 205
Demographics
Residents : 22,915  (2010)
Population density : 14.2 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 1622 km²
Water surface : 8 km²
map
Map of Bibb County within Alabama
Website : www.bibbcountyalabama.com

Bibb County is a county in the state of Alabama in the United States . The county seat is Centerville . The county is part of the dry counties , which means that the sale of alcohol is restricted or prohibited.

geography

The county is located slightly northwest of the geographic center of Alabama has an area of ​​1,822 square kilometers, of which eight square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Jefferson County , Shelby County , Chilton County , Perry County , Hale County, and Tuscaloosa Counties .

history

Before the first squatters arrived in the area in 1815 , the Muskogee lived here on the Cahaba River and its tributaries. Bibb County was formed on February 7, 1818 by resolution of the State Legislature of the Alabama Territory from parts of Monroe County and Montgomery County . The original name Cahawba , after the Cahaba River, was changed to Bibb on December 2, 1820 , and honors Alabama's first governor , William Wyatt Bibb . Bibb was a doctor and a member of the House and Senate of the United States prior to serving as governor . Centerville was already designated a county seat at that time. The county, rich in ores, alumina, timber, and coal, was attractive to entrepreneurs building blast furnaces in the north and northeast during the early 19th century . The Oxmoor Furnace in Blocton was the first blast furnace in the state to produce pig iron . In the 1850s, the county ranked third in Alabama for iron production, making it highly valued by the Confederates during the Civil War . The Brierfield Furnace produced iron for armaments production and was later destroyed by Union troops under General James Harrison Wilson . The era of Reconstruction was marked by social unrest and economic chaos, because a good half of the population consisted of freed slaves . During this period there was an atmosphere of lawlessness marked by impoverishment and violence against African Americans. In the late 19th century, thanks to the wood and coal industry and the connection to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1898 , the county experienced an economic boom that attracted migrants from Austria-Hungary , Belgium , Bulgaria and Italy . The dangerous working conditions in the coal mines meant that more union leaders and lawyers of the United Mine Workers of America ("United Miners of America") were active and between 1894 and 1920 organized several strikes. With this in mind, the socialist Eugene Victor Debs made an appearance in Blocton. In a tornado outbreak that hit the American Southeast with historic strength, one person was killed in Brent on April 27, 2011.

The Davidson-Smitherman House (2012) has been registered in the NRHP since January 1988.

Six structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 30, 2020, including the Centerville Historic District , Davidson-Smitherman House, and Montebrier .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1840 12,024 -
1850 23,632 96.5%
1860 30,812 30.4%
1870 29,300 -4.9%
1880 33,970 15.9%
1890 34,898 2.7%
1900 18,498 -47%
1910 22,791 23.2%
1920 23,144 1.5%
1930 20,780 -10.2%
1940 20,155 -3%
1950 17,987 -10.8%
1960 14,357 -20.2%
1970 13,812 -3.8%
1980 15,723 13.8%
1990 16,576 5.4%
2000 20,826 25.6%
2010 22,915 10%
Before 1900

1900–1990 2000 2010

Bibb County's age pyramid (as of 2000)
The Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge

According to the 2000 census , Bibb County had 20,826 people. Of these, 1,239 people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 7,421 households and 5,580 families. The population density was 13 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 76.66 percent white, 22.20 percent African American, 0.24 percent Native American, 0.08 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.29 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.51 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.01 percent of the population.

Of the 7,421 households, 34.4 percent had children and adolescents under the age of 18 living with them. 58.4 percent were married couples living together, 12.7 percent were single mothers, 24.8 percent were non-families, 22.1 percent of all households were single households and 9.4 percent had people aged 65 and over or above. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.08.

25.4 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 9.5 percent between 18 and 24, 30.9 percent between 25 and 44, 22.7 percent between 45 and 64 and 11.6 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females there were 106.6 males and for females aged 18 and over there were 107 males.

The median income for a household in the 31,420 USD , and the median income for a family 37,230 USD. Males had a median income of $ 30,413 versus $ 21,070 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,105. 14.9 percent of families and 20.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

places

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. 1989, ISBN 0-8173-0410-X .
  • Rhoda C. Ellison: Bibb County, Alabama: The First Hundred Years. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 1999, ISBN 978-0-8173-0987-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 161529. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ Bibb County at alabama.gov ( Memento from April 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ 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. 23.
    Patricia Hoskins Morton: Bibb County in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, February 23, 2018, accessed May 15, 2020.
  4. ^ Davidson-Smitherman House in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 15, 2020.
  5. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 30, 2020.
    Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 30, 2020.
  6. ↑ US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved March 15, 2011
  7. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 28, 2011
  8. ^ Population of Bibb County - Alabama
  9. ↑ Extract from census.gov ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed March 31, 2012
  10. ↑ Bibb County, Alabama - 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov.

Web links

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Coordinates: 33 ° 0 ′  N , 87 ° 8 ′  W