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Pickens County
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county in Alabama, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- Founded
- December 20, 1820
- Named after
- Andrew Pickens
- Seat
- Carrollton
- Largest city
- Aliceville
- Total
- 890 sq mi (2,300 km )
- Land
- 881 sq mi (2,280 km )
- Water
- 8.7 sq mi (23 km ) 1.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,221
- Density
- 21.7/sq mi (8.38/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- www .pickenscountyal .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Andrew Pickens
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Alabama
- Capital
- Pickensville
- Population
- 19123
- Area
- 2305
- Elevation
- 78
- Shares border with
- Lowndes County
- Official website
- www.pickensalabama.com
- Image
- Pickens County Courthouse 2.jpg
- Households
- 7731
- Licence plate code
- 54
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- Commons category
- Pickens County, Alabama
- topic's main category
- Category:Pickens County, Alabama
- water as percent of area
- 1
- native label
- Pickens County
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Pickens County, Alabama
- inception
- 1820-12-20
- different from
- Pickens County
- per capita income
- 23476
- mean age
- 42.5
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Encyclopedic overview
Pickens County is a county located on the west central border of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 19,123. Its county seat is Carrollton, located in the center of the county. It is a prohibition, or dry county, although the communities of Carrollton and Aliceville voted to become wet in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
Pickens County is included in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama metropolitan area
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pickens County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.