Cottondale, Alabama
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Location in Alabama
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Alabama | ||
| County : | Tuscaloosa County | ||
| Coordinates : | 33 ° 11 ′ N , 87 ° 27 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 3,480 (as of 2014) | ||
| Height : | 105 m | ||
| Postal code : | 35453 | ||
| Area code : | +1 205 | ||
| FIPS : | 01-17704 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0116690 | ||
Cottondale is an unincorporated community in Tuscaloosa County in the state of Alabama in the United States and is one of the southern suburbs of Tuscaloosa . Alternative names are Cotton Dale , Kennedale , Kennidale, or Konnidale .
geography
Cottondale is located in central Alabama in the southern United States.
Nearby places include Tuscaloosa (immediately west and south), Holt (2 km northwest), Woodmont (3 km north), Peterson (5 km northeast) and Coaling (6 km southeast).
history
Originally the place was called Kennedale in reference to Joseph Kennedy, a local owner of a cotton mill . 1876 the place along the lines of many cotton mills was (Engl. Cotton mill ) in Cottondale renamed.
In the late 1880s, the site was also an important center for the Knights of Labor . Here also worked, among others, Mary Harris Jones , an important leader of the labor movement .
traffic
Cottondale is located directly on US Highway 11 and about one kilometer north of a shared route on Interstate 20 and Interstate 59 . US Highway 82 also runs six kilometers to the west .
The Tuscaloosa Regional Airport is 14 kilometers to the northwest .
Demographics
In 2014, 3480 people lived in Cottondale, including 49.3% men and 50.7% women. The mean age was 37.5 years. 68.1% of the population were white, 26.8% were black, 3.2% were of any other ethnicity, and 1.9% had two or more ethnicities.