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Winston County
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county in Alabama, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- Founded
- February 12, 1850
- Named after
- John A. Winston
- Seat
- Double Springs
- Largest city
- Haleyville
- Total
- 632 sq mi (1,640 km )
- Land
- 613 sq mi (1,590 km )
- Water
- 19 sq mi (49 km ) 3.0%
- Estimate 2025
- 23,829
- Density
- 38.4/sq mi (14.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- winstonal .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Winston County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,540. Its county seat is Double Springs. Known as Hancock County before 1858, the county is named in honor of John A. Winston, the fifteenth Governor of Alabama. The county had few slaves and has been a bastion of Republican Party loyalty for much of its history, even during the many decades of Democrat Party domination across much of the South and in the state of Alabama after the Reconstruction era.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Winston County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.