Clopton, Alabama
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Location in Alabama
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Alabama | ||
| County : | Dale County | ||
| Coordinates : | 31 ° 37 ′ N , 85 ° 26 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Height : | 154 m | ||
| Postal code : | 36317 | ||
| Area code : | +1 334 | ||
| FIPS : | 01-15688 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0116275 | ||
Clopton is an unincorporated community in Dale County in the state of Alabama in the United States .
geography
Clopton is located in southeast Alabama in the southern United States. It is located approximately 19 miles west of the Chattahoochee River and the Georgia border .
Nearby locations include Blue Springs (7 km northwest), Bertha (7 km south), Abbeville (13 km east), Lawrenceville (15 km northeast), and Ariton (24 km west). The next larger city with 205,000 inhabitants is the capital of Alabama, Montgomery, about 97 kilometers to the northwest .
history
The place may have been named after Congressman David Clopton . A post office was operated from 1853 to 2011.
traffic
Clopton is about nine miles west of US Highway 431 .
About 28 kilometers southeast is the Headland Municipal Airport , 30 kilometers south of the Dothan Regional Airport and 30 kilometers north of the Clayton Municipal Airport .
Personalities
- Henry B. Steagall (1873–1943), lawyer, politician and member of the US House of Representatives
Individual evidence
- ^ Profile for Clopton, AL , accessed August 14, 2015