Tuscumbia, Alabama Tuscumbia, Alabama Colbert County Courthouse in Tuscumbia Colbert County Courthouse in Tuscumbia Location in Colbert County and the state of Alabama Location in Colbert County and the state of Alabama State Alabama Tuscumbia is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Colbert County, Alabama, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 8,423. The town/city is part of The Shoals urbane area.
Tuscumbia had its beginnings when the Michael Dixon family appeared about 1816.
The men of the improve requested that the state council incorporate them as a city. The town was incorporated in 1820 as Ococoposa and is one of Alabama's earliest towns.
Tuscumbia soon became the center for agriculture in northern Alabama. A line to the town on the Tuscumbia, Courtland and Decatur Railroad was instead of in 1832, and by 1850 Tuscumbia was a primary barns core for train traffic throughout the South. Tuscumbia became the governmental center of county for Colbert County in 1867. During the Civil War, the barns core made Tuscumbia a target of the Union Army, which finished the barns shops and other parts of the town.
Tuscumbia is positioned northeast of the center of Colbert County at 34 43 51 N 87 42 10 W (34.730839, -87.702854). It is bordered to the north by the town/city of Sheffield and to the northeast by the town/city of Muscle Shoals.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.8 square miles (22.8 km2), of which 8.8 square miles (22.7 km2) is territory and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.50%, is water. In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.64% under the age of 18, 6.20% from 18 to 24, 30.15% from 25 to 44, 19.50% from 45 to 64, and 21.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $28,793, and the median income for a family was $39,831.
Tuscumbia City Schools and the Colbert County Board of Education furnish enhance education for Tuscumbia.
The following enhance schools are positioned in Tuscumbia: Colbert Heights High School (grades 7 through 12) Colbert Heights Elementary School (grades K through 6) Private schools in Tuscumbia include Covenant Christian School (grades K through 12).
Senator from Alabama (1979 97), former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice (1971 77) Jackson, former four-star admiral in the United States Navy Steele, member of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabam - Acts Passed at the Second Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama.
Cahawba, Alabama: Printed by Allen & Brickell, State Printers in 1820.
"An Act to incorporate the town of Ococoposo in the County of Franklin...Approved, December 20, 1820." City of Tuscumbia Web site.
"Fact Sheet- Tuscumbia city, Alabama".
Deshler High School Yearbook, Tiger's Roar 1996 Volume LXVI, 175 Years Ago by John Mc - Williams.
Acts Passed at the Called Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama Begun and Held in the Town of Cahawba, on the First Monday in June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty One (1821).
Cahawba, Alabama: Printed by Allen & Brickell, State Printers.
Acts Passed at the Fourth Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, Begun an Held at the Town of Cahawba, On the third Monday of November, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two (1822).
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Tuscumbia city, Alabama".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013".
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