- Name
- Etowah
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- Alternate names
- Baine (Family History Library Catalog)
- Baine County (USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS1029541)
- Etowah (Getty Vocabulary Program)
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- Type
- County
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- Coordinates
- 34.067°N 86.05°W
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- Located in
- Alabama, United States (1868 - )
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- 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))
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| Contained Places
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- Deserted settlement
- High Rocks
- Hybes
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- Inhabited place
- Alice
- Altoona
- Anderson
- Attalla
- Aurora
- Avery
- Bachelors Chapel
- Ballplay
- Bath Springs
- Bethlehem
- Black Creek
- Boxtel
- Brannon Springs
- Brans Chapel
- Brice
- Carlisle
- Cave Springs
- Citico
- Clayborn
- Colvin
- Copeland Gap
- Cox Gap
- Daisy
- Doolans
- Duck Springs
- Edwardsville
- Egypt
- Ewing
- Fairview
- Fenton
- Gadsden ( 1600 - )
- Gallant
- Glencoe
- Greenwood
- Happy Hill
- Happy Hollow
- Harrisville
- Hokes Bluff
- Hooks Lake
- Hopper
- Howelton
- Ivalee
- Keener
- Keysburg
- Kyuka
- Lay Springs
- Lester
- Liberty Hill
- Littleton
- Luke
- Markton
- Maryville
- Mayes Crossroad
- Mays
- Midway
- Moodys Chapel
- Moragne
- Mountainboro
- Murrycross
- Noble Hill
- Noojinsville
- Northside
- Norton
- Oakdale
- Old Harmony
- Owens
- Pana
- Pine Grove
- Pleasant Hill
- Pleasant Valley
- Rainbow City
- Ramsey
- Reaves
- Redbud
- Reece City
- Ridgeville
- Riverside
- Rockledge
- Samuels Chapel
- Sardis City
- Scrougeout
- Shady Grove
- Shiloh
- Siberton
- Skyhaven Estates
- Smith Institute
- Smiths Chapel
- Sonoma
- Southside
- Stowers Hill
- Tabor
- Turkeytown
- Union
- Walnut Grove
- Whites Chapel
- Whitesboro
- Williams
- Wilsonia
- Yancy
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- Unknown
- Alabama City
- Marysville
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- 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 Indian language, which means "edible tree." It is the center of the 'Gadsden, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area' which includes Etowah and Cherokee Counties. As of 2000 the population was 103,459. Its county seat is Gadsden.
History
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
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. The county was abolished in 1867, but a year later, Etowah County was created from the same territory.
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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