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Map of Alabama's Black Belt region. Counties highlighted in red are historically considered part of the Black Belt region. Counties highlighted in pink are sometimes considered part of the region. The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, [1] much of it in the soil ...
The Reference Book on Regional Well-Being: U.S. Regions, the Black Belt, Appalachia. (Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 1996) online. Highly detailed Statistics from 1990 census. Winemiller, Terance L. "Black Belt Region in Alabama" Encyclopedia of Alabama (2009) online; Yafa, Stephen.
Pages in category "Black Belt (U.S. region)" ... Black Belt (region of Alabama) Bolivar County, Mississippi; Brunswick County, Virginia; Bullock County, Alabama; C.
This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American. The data source for the list is the 2020 United States Census. [1]
Black Belt (U.S. region) (94 P) Borscht Belt (14 P) Pages in category "Belt regions of the United States" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Although it is not a strictly defined geographic region, it generally includes all Alabama counties south of the Black Belt. In that view, South Alabama consists of just the two counties that border the Gulf of Mexico and Mobile Bay: Baldwin County and Mobile County.
In 1820, Alabama had 29 counties. By 1830 there were 36 and Native Americans still occupied large areas of land in northeast and far western Alabama. By 1840, 49 counties had been created; 52 by 1850; 65 by 1870; and the present 67 counties by 1903. [6] Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3]
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.