Blount County, Alabama

Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 13 Blount County towns.

The largest by population is Oneonta (6,938).

About these towns

Allgood: One source said the town's name comes from a family of homesteaders from South Carolina who settled in the area in the early 19th century.

Altoona: It is part of the Gadsden Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Blountsville: What became Blountsville appears on an 1819 map as the mixed Creek/Cherokee Native American village of "Wassausey" (meaning Bear Meat Cabin, the name of an Indian translator who lived there).

Cleveland: Cleveland was settled in the 1820s, and had grown into a small community by the early 1880s. It was initially known as Dry Creek Crossroads, and afterward as Blackwood's Crossroads, after local entrepreneur John Blackwood.

Locust Fork: While traveling south with his troops in 1815, General Andrew Jackson camped along a river in the area. General Jackson carved his name in a locust tree, naming the area Locust Fork.

Oneonta: A post office called Oneonta has been in operation since 1889. The city was named after Oneonta, New York, the native home of a railroad official.

Snead: First settled in 1839, what is now Snead began to expand in the 1850s when local businessman G.W. White built a gristmill on the nearby Black Warrior River.

Susan Moore: Initially known as "Clarence," what is now Susan Moore was settled by Robert M. Moore and his family in the mid-1860s. In 1923, two of Moore's grandsons donated land for a new school, which was named after their mother, Susan Moore, and the community gradually adopted this name.

Warrior: It is a northern suburb of Birmingham.

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Founding years, populations and town notes come from each town's Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. All Alabama towns.