Editing Pickensville, Alabama

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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name            = Pickensville, Alabama
| settlement_type          = [[Town]]
| image_skyline            = Pickensville Historic District.jpg
| imagesize                = 
| image_caption            = Pickensville Historic District
| image_seal               = 
| image_map                = File:Pickens County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Pickensville Highlighted 0159592.svg
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| map_caption              = Location of Pickensville in Pickens County, Alabama.
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| subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in Alabama|County]]
| subdivision_name         = United States
| subdivision_name1        = [[Alabama]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Pickens County, Alabama|Pickens]]
| government_type          = 
| leader_title             = Mayor
| leader_name              = Donald Sherrod
| established_date         = 1925
| area_magnitude           = 
| area_total_km2           = 26.05
| area_total_sq_mi         = 10.06
| area_land_km2            = 20.13
| area_land_sq_mi          = 7.77
| area_water_km2           = 5.92
| area_water_sq_mi         = 2.29
| elevation_ft             = 230
| elevation_m              = 70
| population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_footnotes     = 
| population_total         = 557
| population_metro         = 
| population_density_km2   = 27.67
| population_density_sq_mi = 71.66
| timezone                 = [[Central Time Zone (North America)|Central (CST)]]
| utc_offset               = -6
| coordinates              = {{coord|33|13|50|N|88|16|21|W|region:US-AL|display=inline}}
| timezone_DST             = CDT
| utc_offset_DST           = -5
|postal_code_type                = [[ZIP code]]
|postal_code              = 35447<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zipdatamaps.com/35447|title=Pickensville AL ZIP Code|publisher=zipdatamaps.com|year=2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
|area_code                       = [[Area codes 205 and 659|205 and 659]]
| blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info               = 01-59592
| blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info              = 0152888
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| unit_pref                = Imperial
| area_footnotes           = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_01.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 29, 2021}}</ref>
}}
'''Pickensville''' is a rural town in [[Pickens County, Alabama|Pickens County]], [[Alabama]], United States. At the 2010 census the population was 608, down from 662 in 2000. It was initially incorporated in 1839<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Bqc3AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22pickensville%22+%22pickens+county%22+%22incorporated%22&pg=PA143 ''Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama''], Montgomery, Alabama: J. Boardman, 1838</ref> (although two other sources claim 1825 and 1835) and briefly served before that as the first county seat of Pickens County. [[Carrollton, Alabama|Carrollton]] was designated as the seat in the early 1830s.

According to the U.S. Census, the incorporation of Pickensville lapsed after 1920. It did not reappear again on the rolls of incorporated towns until 1970.

==Geography==
Pickensville is located at {{coord|33|13|50|N|88|16|21|W|type:city}} (33.230693, -88.272554).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of {{convert|10.0|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|7.8|sqmi|km2}} is land and {{convert|2.3|sqmi|km2}} (22.73%) is water.

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1850= 276
|1880= 264
|1900= 241
|1910= 214
|1920= 158
|1970= 132
|1980= 132
|1990= 169
|2000= 662
|2010= 608
|2020= 557
|align-fn=center
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 6, 2013}}</ref><br>2013 Estimate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/popest/data/cities/totals/2013/SUB-EST2013-3.html|title=Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013|accessdate=June 3, 2014}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Pickensville racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US0159592&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 11, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|206
|36.98%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|342
|61.4%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|2
|0.36%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|6
|1.08%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|1
|0.18%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 557 people, 309 households, and 198 families residing in the town.

===2010 census===
As of the [[2010 United States Census]], there were 608 people living in the town. 63.5% were [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 36.2% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]] and 0.3% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]].

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 662 people, 255 households, and 182 families living in the town. The population density was {{convert|85.4|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 392 housing units at an average density of {{convert|50.6|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the town was 35.35% [[Race (United States Census)|White]], 62.99% [[Race (United States Census)|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)|African American]], 0.15% [[Race (United States Census)|Native American]], 0.30% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.21% from two or more races.

There were 255 households, out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.3% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 22.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.6% were non-families. 24.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.11.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 27.0% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 24.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.2 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $25,357, and the median income for a family was $28,036. Males had a median income of $25,625 versus $22,955 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $15,575. About 29.2% of families and 34.4% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 43.6% of those under age 18 and 53.2% of those age 65 or over.

==Arts and culture==
[[File:Montgomery on the Apalachicola.jpg|220px|left|The snagboat ''Montgomery'', now located at the Tom Bevill Museum in Pickensville]]
Pickensville is home to the Tom Bevill Visitors Center. The Tom Bevill Visitors Center and Museum is a replica of an antebellum plantation mansion built on the [[Tombigbee River]]. It houses exhibits on the [[Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway]] and was named for [[Tom Bevill]], a former U.S. Representative from Alabama who chaired the congressional committee that approved funding for the waterway project.  The ''[[Montgomery (snagboat)|Montgomery]]'', a 1925 restored [[snagboat]], is located at the museum and operated as a [[museum ship]].

==Education==
Pickensville was formerly home to a now-defunct [[female seminary]], the [[Pickensville Female Institute]], incorporated in 1848.<ref>{{cite book|author=Alabama|title=Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sqw3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA216|year=1848|publisher=J. Boardman|page=216}}</ref>

==Notable people==
* [[Lincoln Clark]], member of the Alabama legislature; practiced law in Pickensville between 1931 and 1936
* [[Harvey Butler Fergusson]], lawyer and politician
* [[Dwayne Ijames]], [[defensive back]]
* [[William Belton Murrah]], 19th-century [[Presbyterian]] minister
* [[Jacob H. Sharp]], Confederate general in the Civil War; born in Pickensville in 1833 but grew up in Mississippi

==Gallery==
Below are photographs taken in Pickensville in April 1937 as part of the [[Historic American Buildings Survey]] (HABS) during the Great Depression:
<gallery>
File:Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush, Photographer, April 14, 1937 EAST (FRONT) ELEVATION - Doctor Wilkins House, State Highways 14 and 86 vicinity, Pickensville, Pickens HABS ALA,54-PICK,3-1.tif|Doctor Wilkins House
File:Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush, Photographer, April 14, 1937 SOUTH ELEVATION - Henry Williams Saunders House, Bonner Mill Road and Ferguson Street, Pickensville, HABS ALA,54-PICK,6-1.tif|Henry Williams Saunders House
File:Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush, Photographer, April 13, 1937 FRONT (WEST) ELEVATION FROM SOUTH WEST - Ferguson-Long House, Chopitoulas Street (State Highway 14), HABS ALA,54-PICK,4-1.tif|Ferguson-Long House
File:Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush, Photographer, April 13, 1937 SOUTH (FRONT) ELEVATION - Baptist Church, Bonner Mill Road, Pickensville, Pickens County, AL HABS ALA,54-PICK,2-1.tif|Baptist Church
File:Historic American Buildings Survey Alex Bush, Photographer, April 13, 1937 FRONT (WEST) AND SOUTH ELEVATION - Pickensville Methodist Church, Ferguson Street and Chopitoolas HABS ALA,54-PICK,5-1.tif|Pickensville Methodist Church
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040221144327/http://tenntom.sam.usace.army.mil/pdf/rec/brochures/pickensville.pdf Pickensville Recreation Area]
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[[Category:Towns in Pickens County, Alabama]]
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