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Perry County
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county in Alabama, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- Founded
- December 13, 1819
- Named after
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- Seat
- Marion
- Largest city
- Marion
- Total
- 724 sq mi (1,880 km )
- Land
- 720 sq mi (1,900 km )
- Water
- 4.2 sq mi (11 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 7,425
- Density
- 12/sq mi (4.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- www .perrycountyal .gov /home
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Oliver Hazard Perry
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Alabama
- Capital
- Marion
- Population
- 8511
- Area
- 1875
- Elevation
- 84
- Shares border with
- Marengo County
- Official website
- www.pccommission.org
- Image
- Perry County Alabama Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 3140
- Licence plate code
- 55
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- Commons category
- Perry County, Alabama
- topic's main category
- Category:Perry County, Alabama
- inception
- 1819-12-13
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Perry County, Alabama
- different from
- Perry County
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- native label
- Perry County
- per capita income
- 13833
- mean age
- 38.5
- topic has template
- Template:Perry County, Alabama
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Encyclopedic overview
Perry County is a county located in the Black Belt region in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,511. Its county seat is Marion. The county was established in 1819 and is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Rhode Island and the United States Navy. As of 2020, Perry County was the only county in Alabama, and one of 40 in the United States, not to have access to any wired broadband connections.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perry County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.