Place:Bullock, Alabama, United States

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NameBullock
Alt namesBullocksource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Edward C. Bullock.source: Wikipedia
TypeCounty
Coordinates32.067°N 85.7°W
Located inAlabama, United States     (1866 - )
See alsoBarbour, Alabama, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Macon, Alabama, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Montgomery, Alabama, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Pike, Alabama, United StatesParent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Aberfoil
Almeria
Beans Crossroads
Blues Old Stand
Boswell
Bread Tray Hill
Bruceville
Corinth
Cornerstone
Enon
Fitzpatrick
Guerryton
Hector
High Ridge
Hooks Crossroads
Indian Creek
Inverness
Jamback
Jenkins Crossroads
McGowan
Midway
Mitchell
Mount Hillard
Omega
Ox Level
Peachburg
Perote
Pickett
Pine Grove
Postoak
Sardis
Scottland
Sedgefield
Sellers Crossroads
Shopton
Simsville
Smuteye
Stavo
Suspension
Tanyard
Thompson
Three Notch
Tito
Union Springs


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Bullock County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,357. Union Springs was chosen as the county seat in 1867, and presently is the county's only incorporated city. The county was named for Confederate Army Colonel Edward C. Bullock who was a state senator and outspoken secessionist who died during the American Civil War.

A National Center for Education Statistics report released in January 2009 showed that Bullock County had the highest illiteracy rate in Alabama at 34 percent.

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History

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Bullock County was established by act of the state legislature dated December 5, 1866, with areas partitioned from Macon, Pike, Montgomery, and Barbour counties. The boundaries were changed in February 1867.

Prior to the arrival of white settlers, the future Bullock County was inhabited by Creek Indians. The Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) ceded much of Alabama and Georgia to the US government, and the Creeks were removed completely after 1830. From 1818 through the 1830s, white settlers poured into the area, turning the rich soil into cotton-producing plantations and the area into one of the state's richest.

Bullock County was devastated by the Civil War. Its once-enslaved population (about seventy percent of the total population) had sustained its output, but their emancipation caused a sharp decline in the economy. In the aftermath, Bullock County elected two former slaves to the state legislature, but with end of Reconstruction, the black population were severely restricted and kept down.[1]

By 1877 the boll weevil had migrated into Bullock County cotton fields from Mexico, and the area's economy was further depressed. A significant portion of the once-cotton-producing area was converted to a site of the Amateur Field Trial competition for bird dogs and a game preserve.[1]

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1866 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1867 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1867 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1867 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1870 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1870 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1870 24,474
1880 29,066
1890 27,063
1900 31,944
1910 30,196
1920 25,333
1930 20,016
1940 19,810
1950 16,054
1960 13,462
1970 11,824
1980 10,596
1990 11,042
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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Bullock County, Alabama, United States

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source: Family History Library Catalog


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