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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Lawrence
- Incorporated
- December 17, 1819
- Total
- 6.01 sq mi (15.56 km )
- Land
- 6.00 sq mi (15.53 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 643 ft (196 m)
- Density
- 566.9/sq mi (218.87/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 01-51600
- Website
- cityofmoultonal .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Moulton
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Lawrence County
- Population
- 3398
- Area
- 15.554988
- Elevation
- 195
- Capital of
- Lawrence County
- Image
- Lawrence County Courthouse, Courthouse Square bounded by Main Street, Lawrence Street, Market Street & Court Street, Moulton (Lawrence County, Alabama).jpg
- Households
- 1384
- Dialing code
- 256
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- postal code
- 35650
- Commons category
- Moulton, Alabama
- inception
- 1819-12-17
- water as percent of area
- 0.2396
- P8168
- Ernst Albrecht
- different from
- Moulton
- water area
- 0.03727
- per capita income
- 25944
- mean age
- 47.7
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Encyclopedic overview
Moulton is a city in Lawrence County, Alabama, and is included in the Decatur Metropolitan Area, as well as the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. Although it incorporated in 1819, along with its rival of Courtland, to compete for the honor of county seat, it did not first appear on the U.S. Census rolls until 1900. As of the 2020 census, Moulton had a population of 3,398. The city has been the county seat of Lawrence County since 1820. It has been the largest community in the county since the 1920 U.S. Census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moulton” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.