Choctaw County, Alabama

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Choctaw County Courthouse
Choctaw County Courthouse
administration
US state : Alabama
Administrative headquarters : butler
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		Choctaw County Clerk
117 S. Mulberry Avenue
Butler, AL 36904
Foundation : December 29, 1847
Made up from: Sumter County
Washington County
Area code : 001 205
Demographics
Residents : 13,859  (2010)
Population density : 5.9 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 2385 km²
Water surface : 19 km²
map
Map of Choctaw County within Alabama

Choctaw County is a county in the state of Alabama in the United States . The county seat is Butler .

geography

The county is located in southwest Alabama, borders Mississippi to the west and has an area of ​​2385 square kilometers, of which 19 square kilometers are water. In Alabama, it is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Sumter County , Marengo County , Clarke County, and Washington Counties .

history

Choctaw County was formed on December 29, 1847 by resolution of the State Legislature from parts of Sumter County and Washington County. It was named after the Choctaw Indians who used to live here . Some of them lived near what is now Pushmataha , which is named after one of their chiefs. The Choctaw were deported to Oklahoma on the Path of Tears in the 1830s . The county received national attention in the 1890s when Robert Sims, priest and former Confederate soldier, rallied a following of a hundred people and announced that they were no longer obeying any earthly power. As a result, they no longer paid taxes and were free to distill and sell whiskey themselves. In 1891 US marshals searched him for illicit distillery and put a bounty on him. As a result, there were some deadly skirmishes until Sims and a few of his followers were caught by a mob and immediately hanged. In January 1944, drilling began near Gilbertown . At the same time, a few textile mills and a paper mill opened in the county .

The Mount Sterling Methodist Church (2009) has been registered in the NRHP since May 1986.

One structure in the county is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of March 31, 2020, the Mount Sterling Methodist Church .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1850 8380 -
1860 13,877 65.6%
1870 12,676 -8.7%
1880 15,731 24.1%
1890 17,526 11.4%
1900 18,136 3.5%
1910 18,483 1.9%
1920 20,753 12.3%
1930 20,513 -1.2%
1940 20.195 -1.6%
1950 19,152 -5.2%
1960 17,870 -6.7%
1970 16,589 -7.2%
1980 16,839 1.5%
1990 16,018 -4.9%
2000 15,922 -0.6%
2010 13,859 -13%
Before 1900

1900–1990 2000 2010

Choctaw County's age pyramid (as of 2000)
The Choctaw National Wildlife Refuge
The Coffeeville Dam and boat lift on the Tombigbee River .

Choctaw County's population was 15,922 as of the 2000 census . Of these, 133 people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 6,363 households and 4,574 families. The population density was 7 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 55.14 percent white, 44.13 percent African American, 0.16 percent Native American, 0.04 percent Asian and 0.11 percent from other ethnic groups; 0.42 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.67 percent of the population.

Of the 6,363 households, 32.5 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. There were married couples living together in 52.0 percent, 16.0 percent were single mothers, 28.1 percent were not families, 26.5 percent of all households were single households and 11.6 percent had people aged 65 and over or above. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.99 people.

26.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 7.9 percent between 18 and 24, 26.2 percent between 25 and 44, 25.2 percent between 45 and 64 and 14.6 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 88.8 males and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 85.4 males.

The median income for a household in the 24,749 USD , and the median income for a family 31,870 USD. Males had a median income of $ 32,316 versus $ 18,760 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,635. 20.7 percent of families and 24.5 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. ↑ GNIS-ID: 161537. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ Choctaw County at alabama.gov ( Memento from March 13, 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. 56.
    Patricia Hoskins Morton: Choctaw County. Encyclopedia of Alabama, August 27, 2007, last updated July 12, 2019, accessed June 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ Mount Sterling Methodist Church on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed June 16, 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 Choctaw County - Alabama
  9. ↑ Excerpt from census.gov ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 31, 2012
  10. ^ Population of Choctaw County - Alabama

Web links

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

Coordinates: 32 ° 1 ′  N , 88 ° 16 ′  W