Escambia County, Alabama

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Escambia County Alabama Courthouse
Escambia County Alabama Courthouse
administration
US state : Alabama
Administrative headquarters : Brewton
Address of the
administrative headquarters: 		County Courthouse
P.O. Box 848
Brewton, AL 36427-0848
Foundation : December 10, 1868
Made up from: Baldwin County
Conecuh County
Area code : 001 251
Demographics
Residents : 38,319  (2010)
Population density : 15.6 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area : 2468 km²
Water surface : 14 km²
map
Map of Escambia County within Alabama
Website : www.co.escambia.al.us

The Escambia County is a county in the state of Alabama of the United States . In 2000 , the county had 38,440 residents and a population density of 16 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Brewton , named after William Troupe Brewton , a descendant of the first settler in the area. In Atmore is the Holman State Prison, where the majority of incarcerated sentenced to death Alabama. All executions of the state are carried out there.

geography

The county is located in southern Alabama, on Florida's northern border and has an area of ​​2,468 square kilometers, of which 14 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Conecuh County , Covington County , Baldwin County, and Monroe Counties .

history

On July 27, 1813, the battle of Burnt Corn Creek , which is considered one of the more important of the Creek War , was fought in what is now the county . It was the result of an attack by the United States Army on a delivery of weapons from Pensacola to the "Rotstocks". These formed a faction within the Creek that rejected any compromise with the expanding United States. Fort Crawford was built in 1816 to monitor activities in the Spanish colony of Florida and to ward off the Creek. Most of these were deported to the West on the Path of Tears in the 1830s . Those who stayed settled near Atmore in Poarch . The Poarch Creek are the only federally recognized indigenous nation in Alabama and still live in and around the Poarch Creek Reservation to this day . In 1861 the village of Pollard was created at the intersection of two railway lines and became an important military post during the Civil War . In January 1865, Northern forces attacked Confederate forces under General James Holt Clanton . Escambia County was formed on December 10, 1868 by resolution of the State Legislature from parts of Baldwin County and Conecuh Counties . The origin of the name is derived from the river of the same name. Its name is not clear, possibly it comes from the Spanish cambiar ("to act"). Another etymological explanation is that the word means "clear water" in the language of the Creek and "reed" in Choctaw . The first district capital was Pollard, in 1880 it became Brewton, which was now economically more important and more populous than the first county seat. In September 1890, Rube Burrow carried out one of the largest railroad robberies in southern history near Pollard.

The Brewton Historic Commercial District (2014) has been registered in the NRHP since March 1982.

Two structures and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as of April 2, 2020, the Brewton Historic Commercial District and the Commercial Hotel-Hart Hotel .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census Residents ± in%
1870 4041 -
1880 5719 41.5%
1890 8666 51.5%
1900 11,320 30.6%
1910 18,889 66.9%
1920 22,464 18.9%
1930 27,963 24.5%
1940 30,671 9.7%
1950 31,443 2.5%
1960 33,511 6.6%
1970 34,906 4.2%
1980 38,440 10.1%
1990 35,518 -7.6%
2000 38,440 8.2%
2010 38,319 -0.3%
Before 1900

1900–1990 2000 2010

Age pyramid of Escambia County

As of the 2000 census , there were 38,440 people in Escambia County. Of these, 3,005 people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 14,297 households and 10,093 families. The population density was 16 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 64.40 percent white, 30.79 percent African American, 3.01 percent Native American, 0.24 percent Asian, 0.03 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.40 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.13 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 0.99 percent of the population.

Of the 14,297 households, 32.0 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. There were married couples living together in 51.7 percent, 15.1 percent were single mothers, 29.4 percent were not families, 26.4 percent of all households were single households and 11.4 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.

24.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 9.7 percent between 18 and 24 years old, 28.9 percent between 25 and 44 years, 23.7 percent between 45 and 64 years and 13.6 percent were 65 years or older older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 102.7 males and for females aged 18 and over there were 102.7 males.

The median income for a household in the county is $ 28,319 , and the median income for a family is $ 36,086. Males had a median income of $ 30,632 versus $ 18,091 for females. The per capita income was $ 14,396. 15.2 percent of families and 20.9 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Escambia 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: 161552. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
  2. ↑ Escambia County at Alabama.gov ( Memento from April 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Escambia County in the Encyclopedia of Alabama, accessed May 10, 2020.
    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. 96.
  4. ^ Brewton Historic Commercial District on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed May 10, 2020.
  5. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed April 2, 2020.
    Weekly List on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed April 2, 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 Escambia County - Alabama
  9. ↑ Extract from census.gov
  10. ^ Population of Escambia County - Alabama

Web links

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Coordinates: 31 ° 8 ′  N , 87 ° 10 ′  W