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.
What the archive holds in Alabama
| Records | Count | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Settlements | 6,387 | Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records, each with the survey sheets that cover it. |
| Topographic sheets | 3,191 | Distinct United States Geological Survey sheets covering those settlements. |
| Local histories | 4 | Complete chapters from the county histories, reproduced unedited. |
| Listed properties | 1,372 | On the National Register of Historic Places. |
| Surveyed structures | 1,264 | Buildings and bridges recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record, with their photographs and written histories. |
| Words of narrative | 103,308 | Public-domain county history, published complete. |
Counties
67 of 67All 67 counties in Alabama. Every county below has published records and opens its own page.
| Map | County | Settlements | Listed | Narrative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Autauga County | 63 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Baldwin County | 90 | 61 | not yet read | |
| Barbour County | 56 | 20 | not yet read | |
| Bibb County | 100 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Blount County | 93 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Bullock County | 43 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Butler County | 42 | 31 | not yet read | |
| Calhoun County | 179 | 63 | not yet read | |
| Chambers County | 62 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Cherokee County | 115 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Chilton County | 43 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Choctaw County | 69 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Clarke County | 59 | 21 | not yet read | |
| Clay County | 51 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Cleburne County | 36 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Coffee County | 83 | 5 | not yet read | |
| Colbert County | 119 | 29 | not yet read | |
| Conecuh County | 51 | 4 | 509 words | |
| Coosa County | 45 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Covington County | 58 | 10 | not yet read | |
| Crenshaw County | 41 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Cullman County | 87 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Dale County | 45 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Dallas County | 63 | 35 | not yet read | |
| DeKalb County | 128 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Elmore County | 82 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Escambia County | 51 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Etowah County | 150 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Fayette County | 32 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Franklin County | 52 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Geneva County | 41 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Greene County | 35 | 36 | not yet read | |
| Hale County | 36 | 21 | 47,748 words | |
| Henry County | 32 | 4 | not yet read | |
| Houston County | 108 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Jackson County | 126 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Jefferson County | 670 | 189 | not yet read | |
| Lamar County | 20 | 1 | not yet read | |
| Lauderdale County | 188 | 39 | not yet read | |
| Lawrence County | 63 | 12 | not yet read | |
| Lee County | 109 | 26 | not yet read | |
| Limestone County | 131 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Lowndes County | 34 | 6 | not yet read | |
| Macon County | 36 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Madison County | 235 | 97 | 42,618 words | |
| Marengo County | 73 | 29 | not yet read | |
| Marion County | 41 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Marshall County | 126 | 15 | not yet read | |
| Mobile County | 201 | 146 | not yet read | |
| Monroe County | 58 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Montgomery County | 224 | 71 | 12,433 words | |
| Morgan County | 85 | 20 | not yet read | |
| Perry County | 40 | 22 | not yet read | |
| Pickens County | 51 | 7 | not yet read | |
| Pike County | 88 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Randolph County | 86 | 3 | not yet read | |
| Russell County | 45 | 22 | not yet read | |
| St. Clair County | 96 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Shelby County | 170 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Sumter County | 49 | 13 | not yet read | |
| Talladega County | 151 | 27 | not yet read | |
| Tallapoosa County | 100 | 9 | not yet read | |
| Tuscaloosa County | 386 | 47 | not yet read | |
| Walker County | 130 | 8 | not yet read | |
| Washington County | 57 | 2 | not yet read | |
| Wilcox County | 56 | 14 | not yet read | |
| Winston County | 62 | 3 | not yet read |
Settlements in Alabama
6,387 settlementsNamed 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.