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01-01852. GNIS feature ID. 0159066. Website. www.annistonal.gov. Anniston is a city and the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 23,106. [2]
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. [1] Its county seat is Anniston. [2] It is named in honor of John C. Calhoun, a US Senator from South Carolina who was a staunch supporter of slavery.
The Anniston–Oxford metropolitan statistical area is the second-most populated metropolitan area in Northeast Alabama, behind Huntsville. At the 2000 census, it had a population of 112,249. The MSA is anchored by significant jobs at Jacksonville State University, the Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center, Stringfellow Hospital, the ...
The Constitution of Alabama requires that any new county in Alabama cover at least 600 square miles (1,600 km 2) in area, effectively limiting the creation of new counties in the state. [9] The Alabama Department of Revenue's Motor Vehicle Division issues standard automobile license plates that bear a one- or two-digit number identifying the ...
Fort McClellan. Coordinates: 33°42′39″N 85°44′14″W. Buckner Hall at Fort McClellan in 2014. Fort McClellan, originally Camp McClellan, is a decommissioned United States Army post located adjacent to the city of Anniston, Alabama. During World War II, it was one of the largest U.S. Army installations, training an estimated half-million ...
The Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks, which occurred on May 14, 1961, in Anniston and Birmingham, both Alabama, were acts of mob violence targeted against civil rights activists protesting against racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party in ...
Map of the United States with Alabama highlighted. Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alabama is the 24th most populous state with 5,024,279 inhabitants [1] and the 28th largest by land area spanning 50,645.33 square miles (131,170.8 km 2) of land. [2]
United States Post Office (Anniston, Alabama) / 33.65917°N 85.82917°W / 33.65917; -85.82917. The U.S. Post Office, also known as the Federal Building and Courthouse, is a historic government building in Anniston, Alabama. [1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1976.