Chambers County, Alabama

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Chambers County Courthouse in the Chambers County Courthouse Square Historic District. This Historic District has been registered in the NRHP since March 1980. [1]
Chambers County Courthouse in the Chambers County Courthouse Square Historic District . This Historic District has been registered in the NRHP since March 1980.
administration
US state : Alabama
Administrative headquarters : Lafayette
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		Chambers County Clerk
18 Alabama Avenue
Lafayette, AL 36862
Foundation : December 18, 1832
Made up from: Original County
Area code : 001 334
Demographics
Residents : 34,215  (2010)
Population density : 22.1 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 1562 km²
Water surface : 15 km²
map
Map of Chambers County within Alabama
Website : www.chamberscounty.com

The Chambers County is a county in the state of Alabama of the United States . The county seat is Lafayette .

geography

Chambers County is in eastern Alabama and borders the neighboring state of Georgia ; the eastern border is formed by the Chattahoochee River . Within Alabama, it is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Lee County , Tallapoosa County, and Randolph Counties . Chambers County has an area of ​​1,562 square kilometers, of which 15 square kilometers are water.

history

Chambers County was formed on December 18, 1832 by resolution of the State Legislature from parts of the land that the Muskogee had ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Cusseta in March of that year. It was named after Henry H. Chambers (1790-1826), a medical officer on the staff of General Andrew Jackson , delegate to the Constituent Assembly of Alabama and MP for Alabama in the United States Senate . Until the Civil War, the county prospered through cotton cultivation , which was reinforced in 1851 by the connection to the railway line of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad . Fort Tyler, which protected the Confederate supply line to Georgia , was captured by Union forces at the Battle of West Point in mid-April 1865 . In the Reconstruction , the county experienced economic decline despite a textile mill going into production on the Chattahoochee River in 1869 . In 1921, the Alabama and Georgia Manufacturing Company was bought by the immediately neighboring West Point Manufacturing. The economic boom in neighboring West Point (Georgia) radiated into the county and led to the construction of three more textile mills in Fairfax , Riverdale and Lanett . Company-owned cities with schools, recreational facilities and other services were created around the production facilities. In 1980, three of these places merged to form the City of Valley .

Ten structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 31, 2020, including the Langdale Historic District , Chambers County's Courthouse Square Historic District, and the Riverview Historic District .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1840 17,333 -
1850 23,960 38.2%
1860 23,214 -3.1%
1870 17,562 -24.3%
1880 23,440 33.5%
1890 26,310 12.2%
1900 32,554 23.7%
1910 36,056 10.8%
1920 41,201 14.3%
1930 39,313 -4.6%
1940 42,146 7.2%
1950 39,528 -6.2%
1960 37,828 -4.3%
1970 36,356 -3.9%
1980 39.191 7.8%
1990 36,876 -5.9%
2000 36,583 -0.8%
2010 34,215 -6.5%
Before 1900

1900–1990 2000 2010

Chambers County's age pyramid (as of 2000)
The Horace King Memorial Bridge in the Langdale Historic District . This Historic District has been registered in the NRHP since November 1999.

As of the 2010 census , Chambers County had a population of 34,215. Of these, 518 people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 14,522 households and 10,194 families. The population density was 24 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 60.88 percent white, 38.11 percent African American, 0.13 percent Native American, 0.19 percent Asian and 0.12 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.57 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.77 percent of the population.

Of the 14,522 households, 29.3 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. There were married couples living together in 48.5 percent, 17.4 percent were single mothers, 29.8 percent were not families, 27.0 percent of all households were single households and 12.4 percent had people aged 65 and over or above. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.01.

24.6 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 8.6 percent between 18 and 24, 27.0 percent between 25 and 44, 23.5 percent between 45 and 64 and 16.2 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 89.6 males and for females aged 18 and over there were 85.3 males.

The median income for a household in the 29,667 USD , and the median income for a family 36,598 USD. Males had a median income of $ 28,771 versus $ 21,159 for females. The per capita income was $ 15,147. 14.3 percent of families and 17.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in the county

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chambers County Courthouse Square Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 21, 2020.
  2. ↑ GNIS-ID: 161534. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  3. ↑ Chambers County at Alabama.gov ( March 13, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ 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. 50.
    Patricia Hoskins Morton: Chambers County. Encyclopedia of Alabama, July 23, 2019, accessed May 21, 2020.
  5. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 31, 2020.
    Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed March 31, 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 Chambers County - Alabama
  9. ↑ Extract from census.gov ( Memento from August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed March 31, 2012
  10. ^ Langdale Historic District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 21, 2020.
  11. ↑ Population of Chambers County - Alabama

Web links

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

Coordinates: 32 ° 55 ′  N , 85 ° 24 ′  W