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| Name | Etowah |
| Alt names | Baine | source: Family History Library Catalog | | Baine County | source: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS1029541 | | Etowah | source: Getty Vocabulary Program |
| Type | County |
| Coordinates | 34.067°N 86.05°W |
| Located in | Alabama, United States (1868 - ) |
| See also | Blount, Alabama, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Calhoun, Alabama, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Cherokee, Alabama, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | DeKalb, Alabama, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | Marshall, Alabama, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) | | St. Clair, Alabama, United States | Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990) |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Etowah County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is from the Cherokee language, which means "edible tree". It is the center of the Gadsden Metropolitan Area which includes Etowah and Cherokee Counties. As of the 2010 census the population was 104,430. Its county seat is Gadsden. In total area, it is the smallest county in Alabama.
History
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Etowah was originally the southern part of DeKalb County, Alabama. However Baine County was established on December 7, 1866, named for General David W. Baine of the Confederate Army, with its county seat at Gadsden. On December 1, 1868 the county was abolished and Etowah County was created from the same territory.
An F4 tornado struck here on Palm Sunday March 27, 1994. It destroyed Piedmont's Goshen United Methodist Church twelve minutes after the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1867 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1867 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1867 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1868 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1870 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1870 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1894 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1870 | 10,109
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| 1880 | 15,398
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| 1890 | 21,926
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| 1900 | 27,361
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| 1910 | 39,109
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| 1920 | 47,275
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| 1930 | 63,399
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| 1940 | 72,580
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| 1950 | 93,892
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| 1960 | 96,980
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| 1970 | 94,144
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| 1980 | 103,057
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| 1990 | 99,840
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