Chapman, Alabama
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Location in Alabama
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Alabama | ||
| County : | Butler County | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 40 ′ N , 86 ° 43 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Height : | 79 m | ||
| Postal code : | 36015 | ||
| Area code : | +1 334 | ||
| FIPS : | 01-13912 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0117963 | ||
Chapman is a civil parish in Butler County in the state of Alabama in the United States .
geography
Chapman is located in southern Alabama in the southern United States.
Nearby places include Georgiana (2 km southwest), Bolling (5 km north), McKenzie (11 km south) and Greenville (15 km north). The next larger city with 205,000 inhabitants is the capital of Alabama, Montgomery, about 72 kilometers to the northeast .
history
Chapman is on a former line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was founded to source local lumber. With the WT Smith Lumber Company , one of the oldest lumber companies in Alabama was based in the town. At that time there were three sawmills in Chapman and over 40 workers' homes.
The place was named after a shareholder in the Rocky Creek Lumber Company , initially as Chapman's Station . In 1887 a post office was opened and the place got its current name.
traffic
About one kilometer east of the town is US Highway 31 , which runs 2060 kilometers from Alabama to Michigan . Interstate 65 runs four kilometers to the west and leads 1,436 kilometers to Indiana .
Mac Crenshaw Memorial Airport is about 20 kilometers northeast .
Web links
- Statistical data on Chapman (Engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ James E. Fickle: Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries , University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, p. 66 ( on Google Books )
- ↑ Place Names in Alabama , University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa 1989, p. 31 ( on Google Books )