Place:Calhoun, Alabama, United States

Watchers
Larger map
NameCalhoun
Alt namesBentonsource: Family History Library Catalog
Benton Countysource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS1029521
Calhounsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates33.75°N 85.85°W
Located inAlabama, United States     (1832 - )
See alsoCleburne, Alabama, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Etowah, Alabama, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
Contained Places
Census-designated place
Choccolocco
Deserted settlement
Big Shoal Village
Finch
Inhabited place
Alexandria
Allsop
Angel
Anniston
Asberry
Bethel
Betta-Life
Blue Mountain
Blue Pond
Blue Springs
Boiling Springs
Bonny Brook
Booker T City
Brutonville
Burns Crossroad
Burns
Bush
Bynum
Cane Creek
Cedar Springs
Cheaha Acres
Coldwater
Colvins Gap
Colwell
Couch
Crystal Springs
De Soto Manor
DeArmanville
Duke
Eastaboga
Eastwood
Eulaton
Four Mile
Francis Mill
Francis
Friendship
Gauldinville
Grayton
Greenwood
Hallingworth
Halls Chapel
Harmony
Hicks
Hillcrest
Hobson City
Holley Crossroads
Hollingsworth
Holly Springs
Ingram Wells
Iron City
Jacksonville
Jenkins
Jo Dell
Joseph Springs
Knightens Crossroads
Knoxville
Ladiga
Lakeview
Laney
Lardent
Leatherwood
Leydens Mill
Lowrimores Crossroads
Macon
Maxwellborn
McKibben
Meadowbrook
Mechanicsville
Melrose
Merrellton
Middleton
Mitchellville
Morrisville
Mount Olive
Mount Polk
Nances Creek
New Haven
New Liberty
Oak Grove
Oak Level
Ohatchee
Old Davisville
Ottery
Oxford
Parkwood
Peaceburg
Peeks Hill
Philadelphia
Piedmont Springs
Piedmont
Pleasant Ridge
Possum Trot
Post Oak
Prices
Prickettville
Rabbittown
Ragan Chapel
Roy Webb
Saks
Spring Valley
Sulphur Springs
Tarsus
Ten Islands
Tredegar
Trinity
Union
Vigo
Vinnette
Wayside
Weaver
Webster Chapel
Wellborn
Wellington
West End-Cobb Town
West Point
West Wellington
White Plains
White
Whites Gap
Whitesides Mill
Woodland Park
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Calhoun County is a county in the east central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 116,441. Its county seat is Anniston. It was named in honor of John C. Calhoun, noted politician and US Senator from South Carolina.

Calhoun County is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Contents

[edit]

History

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Benton County was established on December 18, 1832, named for Thomas Hart Benton, a member of the United States Senate from Missouri. Its county seat was Jacksonville. Benton, a slave owner, was a political ally of John C. Calhoun, U.S. senator from South Carolina and also a slaveholder and planter. Through the 1820s-1840s, however, Benton's and Calhoun's political interests diverged. Calhoun was increasingly interested in using the threat of secession as a weapon to maintain and expand slavery throughout the United States. Benton, on the other hand, was slowly coming to the conclusion that slavery was wrong and that preservation of the union was paramount. On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County.

During the Reconstruction era and widespread violence by whites to suppress black and white Republican voting in the state during the campaign for the 1870 gubernatorial election, four blacks and one white were lynched.

After years of controversy and a State Supreme Court ruling in June 1900, the county seat was moved to Anniston.

The city was hit by an F4 tornado during the 1994 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak on March 27, 1994. Twelve minutes after the National Weather Service of Birmingham issued a tornado warning for northern Calhoun, southeastern Etowah, and southern Cherokee counties, the tornado destroyed Piedmont's Goshen United Methodist Church.

[edit]

Timeline

Date Event Source
1832 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1832 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1834 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1835 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1840 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
1891 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1919 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
[edit]

Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1840 14,260
1850 17,163
1860 21,539
1870 13,980
1880 19,591
1890 33,835
1900 34,874
1910 39,115
1920 47,822
1930 55,611
1940 63,319
1950 79,539
1960 95,878
1970 103,092
1980 119,761
1990 116,034


[edit]

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Calhoun County, Alabama, United States

[edit]

Research Tips

This place has no commentary yet. It is only a stub. You can help by editing it and sharing what you know: research tips, history, relationships with other places, etc.


This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Calhoun County, Alabama. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Retrieved from "https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Place:Calhoun%2C_Alabama%2C_United_States"