Bladon Springs
| Bladon Springs | |||
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 Bladon Springs Methodist Church (2013) |
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| Location in Alabama | |||
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Alabama | ||
| County : | Choctaw County | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 44 ′ N , 88 ° 12 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Height : | 29 m | ||
| Postal code : | 36919 | ||
| Area code : | +1 251 | ||
| FIPS : | 01-07240 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 114465 | ||
Blason Springs is an unincorporated community in Choctaw County in the state of Alabama in the United States .
geography
Bladon Springs is located in southwest Alabama in the southern United States, about 25 kilometers east of the Mississippi border . It is located just south of the 144 ha large Bladon Springs State Park and a few kilometers west of the Tombigbee River , which later in the Mobile River passes and the Mobile Bay and the Gulf of Mexico flows.
Nearby places include Silas (10 km west), Cullomburg (10 km southwest), Coffeeville (10 km east), Frankville (11 km southeast) and Millry (14 km southwest). The next larger city with 195,000 inhabitants is about 110 kilometers south of Mobile .
history
The village was built near the mineral water springs that are in what is now Bladon Springs State Park and were previously used as a hotel and spa. Large parts of the summer residences that were built at that time are now part of the Bladon Springs Historic District . When the post office opened in 1831, the place was still called Warrior Bridge , in reference to the Indian tribes who once owned the land. In 1844 the place got its current name. A Methodist church was built around 1847 .
traffic
US Highway 84 and Alabama State Route 12 run a few kilometers north of the village, both of which connect to US Highway 45 in the west and US Highway 43 in the east .
Waynesboro Municipal Airport is about 42 kilometers to the west .
Personalities
- Frank W. Boykin (1885–1969), politician and member of the US House of Representatives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Place Names in Alabama , University of Alabama press, Tuscaloosa 1989, p. 19 ( on Google Books )