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Alabama

The archive covers 67 counties in Alabama so far. Everything below is a work of the United States government or a book published before 1929, and every page links to the record it came from.

Alabama within the United States

What the archive holds in Alabama

RecordsCount What it is
Settlements6,387Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records, each with the survey sheets that cover it.
Topographic sheets3,191Distinct United States Geological Survey sheets covering those settlements.
Local histories4Complete chapters from the county histories, reproduced unedited.
Listed properties1,372On the National Register of Historic Places.
Surveyed structures1,264Buildings and bridges recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record, with their photographs and written histories.
Words of narrative103,308Public-domain county history, published complete.

Counties

67 of 67

All 67 counties in Alabama. Every county below has published records and opens its own page.

Map CountySettlements ListedNarrative
Autauga County635not yet read
Baldwin County9061not yet read
Barbour County5620not yet read
Bibb County1006not yet read
Blount County935not yet read
Bullock County434not yet read
Butler County4231not yet read
Calhoun County17963not yet read
Chambers County6210not yet read
Cherokee County1151not yet read
Chilton County433not yet read
Choctaw County691not yet read
Clarke County5921not yet read
Clay County512not yet read
Cleburne County364not yet read
Coffee County835not yet read
Colbert County11929not yet read
Conecuh County514509 words
Coosa County452not yet read
Covington County5810not yet read
Crenshaw County413not yet read
Cullman County879not yet read
Dale County454not yet read
Dallas County6335not yet read
DeKalb County12813not yet read
Elmore County8213not yet read
Escambia County513not yet read
Etowah County15015not yet read
Fayette County324not yet read
Franklin County523not yet read
Geneva County411not yet read
Greene County3536not yet read
Hale County362147,748 words
Henry County324not yet read
Houston County10813not yet read
Jackson County12612not yet read
Jefferson County670189not yet read
Lamar County201not yet read
Lauderdale County18839not yet read
Lawrence County6312not yet read
Lee County10926not yet read
Limestone County13115not yet read
Lowndes County346not yet read
Macon County3614not yet read
Madison County2359742,618 words
Marengo County7329not yet read
Marion County412not yet read
Marshall County12615not yet read
Mobile County201146not yet read
Monroe County587not yet read
Montgomery County2247112,433 words
Morgan County8520not yet read
Perry County4022not yet read
Pickens County517not yet read
Pike County883not yet read
Randolph County863not yet read
Russell County4522not yet read
St. Clair County9614not yet read
Shelby County17013not yet read
Sumter County4913not yet read
Talladega County15127not yet read
Tallapoosa County1009not yet read
Tuscaloosa County38647not yet read
Walker County1308not yet read
Washington County572not yet read
Wilcox County5614not yet read
Winston County623not yet read

Settlements in Alabama

6,387 settlements

Named places, each with its own page of maps and records. They are listed on the page for the county that holds them, because that is where the rest of a town's record lives too. A place with no page is a place the archive has not reached yet, not a place that does not exist.

Every county in Alabama, each listing its own settlements.

Provenance

  • Boundaries. Census Bureau TIGERweb. A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Place names. Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey.
  • Counts. Computed from the records this site publishes, not quoted from anywhere. They change when the archive grows.

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