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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]
Central and northern Alabama are squarely within Dixie Alley, the primary area in the U.S. outside the Southern Plains (i.e. the traditional Tornado Alley) with relatively high tornado risk. Alabama is ranked second in the U.S for the deadliest tornadoes. Hurricanes are quite common in the state, especially in the southern part.
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Alabama is divided into 67 counties and contains 461 municipalities consisting of 174 cities and 287 towns. [3] These cities and towns cover only 9.6% of the state's land mass but are home to 60.4% of its population. [2] The Code of Alabama 1975 defines the legal use of the terms "town" and "city" based on population.
The list of weather records includes the most extreme occurrences of weather phenomena for various categories. Many weather records are measured under specific conditions—such as surface temperature and wind speed—to keep consistency among measurements around the Earth.
A thunderstorm brought flash flooding to central Alabama on Thursday, March 25, as severe weather devastated regions of the state.Footage shared by Christina Warren shows muddy floodwaters flowing ...
Average precipitation. The characteristics of United States rainfall climatology differ significantly across the United States and those under United States sovereignty. . Summer and early fall bring brief, but frequent thundershowers and tropical cyclones which create a wet summer and drier winter in the eastern Gulf and lower Eas
Death Valley got 1.66 inches of rain earlier this week, the National Weather Service said early Wednesday in a 72-hour precipitation report. A temporary lake at Badwater Basin is rare, according ...