Place:Conecuh, Alabama, United States

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NameConecuh
Alt namesConecuhsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates31.467°N 86.983°W
Located inAlabama, United States     (1818 - )
See alsoEscambia, Alabama, United StatesChild county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990)
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Centerville
China
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Commerce
Cooks Crossroads
Deans
Evergreen
Fairnelson
Fairview
Flat Rock
Fowler
Georgiaville
Green Street
Harpers Store
Herbert
Janes Mill
Jay Villa
Johnsonville
Lenox
London
Loree
Lyeffion
Melrose
Mixonville
Mount Union
Nichburg
Nymph
Old Sparta
Old Town
Owassa
Paul
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Ramah
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Repton
Sand Cut
Shreve
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Conecuh County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the population was 11,597. Its county seat is Evergreen. Its name is believed to be derived from a Creek Indian term meaning "land of cane."

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The areas along the rivers had been used by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years. French and Spanish explorers encountered the historic Creek Indians. Later, British colonial traders developed relationships with the Creek, and several married high-status Creek women. As the tribe has a matrilineal system, children are considered born into their mother's clan and take their status from her family.

During the American Revolutionary War, the Upper Creek chief Alexander McGillivray, whose father was Scottish, allied his tribe with the British, hoping they could stop colonial Americans from encroaching on Creek land. Commissioned a British colonel, McGillivray named Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, a French adventurer who lived with the Creeks for 20 years, as the war chief to lead the Creek warriors.

Conecuh County was established by Alabama on February 13, 1818. Some of its territory was taken in 1868 by the Republican state legislature during the Reconstruction era to establish Escambia County. Located in the coastal plain, 19th century Conecuh County was an area of plantations and cotton cultivation, and it is still quite rural today. Thousands of African American residents left in the 1940s, during the Second Great Migration, mostly for industrial regions in the major cities.

In September 1979, the county was declared a disaster area, due to damage caused by Hurricane Frederic.

Conecuh County was mentioned as the birthplace of Theodore Bagwell in the television series Prison Break.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1818 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1820 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1866 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1866 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1866 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1870 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1881 Birth records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1881 Court 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
1820 5,713
1830 7,444
1840 8,197
1850 9,322
1860 11,311
1870 9,574
1880 12,605
1890 14,594
1900 17,514
1910 21,433
1920 24,593
1930 25,429
1940 25,489
1950 21,776
1960 17,762
1970 15,645
1980 15,884
1990 14,054
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Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Conecuh County, Alabama, United States

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