Batts Nest, Alabama | |
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Unincorporated community | |
  Batts Nest, Alabama | |
| Coordinates: 34°9′16″N87°36′1″W / 34.15444°N 87.60028°W Coordinates: 34°9′16″N87°36′1″W / 34.15444°N 87.60028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Winston |
| Elevation | 853 ft (260 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 2680792 [1] |
Batts Nest or Batt's Nest was an unincorporated community in Winston County, Alabama, United States. It is now a ghost town. [2]
The largemouth bass is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but widely introduced elsewhere. It is known by a variety of regional names, such as the widemouth bass, bigmouth bass, black bass, bucketmouth, largies, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, bucketmouth bass, Green trout, gilsdorf bass, Oswego bass, LMB, and southern largemouth and northern largemouth. The largemouth bass is the state fish of Georgia and Mississippi, and the state freshwater fish of Florida and Alabama.
Winston County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,484. 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.
Yellowjacket or yellow jacket is the common name in North America for predatory social wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula. Members of these genera are known simply as "wasps" in other English-speaking countries. Most of these are black and yellow like the eastern yellowjacket Vespula maculifrons and the aerial yellowjacket Dolichovespula arenaria; some are black and white like the bald-faced hornet, Dolichovespula maculata. Others may have the abdomen background color red instead of black. They can be identified by their distinctive markings, their occurrence only in colonies, and a characteristic, rapid, side-to-side flight pattern prior to landing. All females are capable of stinging. Yellowjackets are important predators of pest insects.
The northern flicker or common flicker is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker species that migrate. Over 100 common names for the northern flicker are known, including yellowhammer, clape, gaffer woodpecker, harry-wicket, heigh-ho, wake-up, walk-up, wick-up, yarrup, and gawker bird. Many of these names derive from attempts to imitate some of its calls.
Philip Eugene Batt is an American politician who served as the 29th Governor of Idaho from 1995 to 1999. Batt had previously served as the Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, Chair of the Idaho Republican Party, and as a member of the Idaho Legislature. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Michael Altieri is an American former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Mikey Batts. He is best known for his time spent in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
WEUP-FM is an urban contemporary formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and most of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States. WEUP-FM is known as "103.1 WEUP", often pronounced "103.1 'We Up'", and simulcast on WEUZ as well as several translators. The station's studios are located along Jordan Lane in Northwest Huntsville, and its transmitter is located east of Moulton, Alabama, its city of license.
Deborah Anne Batts was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. During Gay Pride Week in June of 1994, Deborah Batts was sworn in as a United States District Judge for Manhattan, becoming the nation's first openly LGBT, African-American federal judge. She took senior status on her 65th birthday, April 13, 2012.
Damian Alexander Nathaniel Batt is an English footballer who most recently played for Dagenham & Redbridge.
The 1994 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1994 to select the governor of the U.S. state of Idaho. Cecil D. Andrus, the Democratic incumbent, chose not to seek reelection after a total of 14 years in office. Former state senator and Republican Party chair Phil Batt engineered a come-from-behind victory to defeat Democratic Attorney General Larry Echo Hawk. Batt's victory put the Idaho governorship in Republican hands for the first time since 1970.
WHIY is an Urban oldies and Blues music formatted radio station that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and the majority of the Tennessee Valley in north Alabama, United States. The station's studios and transmitter are both co-located along Jordan Lane in Northwest Huntsville.
WEUV is an urban contemporary gospel and urban adult contemporary formatted radio station licensed to Moulton, Alabama, that serves Huntsville, Alabama, and northwest Alabama, United States. The station's studios are located along Jordan Lane in Northwest Huntsville, and its transmitter is located in Moulton.
WEUZ is an urban contemporary format radio station that serves north Alabama and south-central Tennessee, United States. Its programming is a simulcast of co-owned WEUP-FM. This programming is also simulcast on several broadcast translators. The station's studios are located along Jordan Lane in Northwest Huntsville, and its transmitter is located west of Goodspring, Tennessee.
WELR-FM is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. Licensed to Roanoke, Alabama, United States, the station is currently owned by Eagle's Nest, Inc. and features programming from ABC Radio.
The Alabama map turtle is a species of emydid turtle endemic to the southern United States. Differentiation from other turtle species includes a black stripe running down the center of its back with knobs extruding from it, but these projections wear down with age. T.H. Bean and L. Kumlen first collected the Alabama map turtle in July 1876 from a lake near Montgomery, Alabama. Type locality for this species is Montgomery County, Alabama. Baur described and named the Alabama map turtle in 1893. The genus Graptemys includes nine species of mostly aquatic turtles.
Miss USA 1965, the 14th Miss USA pageant, took place in Miami Beach, Florida on June 4, 1965. This was the first Miss USA pageant to be televised live, and the first to be a self-contained production, held several weeks before, and independent of, the Miss Universe pageant.
Batts Hall is a building on the South Mall of the University of Texas at Austin campus in Austin, Texas, United States. The five-floor, 39,143-square-foot structure is named after Robert Lynn Batts.
Ryley Batt, is an Australian wheelchair rugby player. He has won two gold and a silver medal at four Paralympic Games. He has been selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, his fifth Games.
Vilula, also known as Vihula, is an unincorporated community in Perry County, Alabama, United States.
Miss USA World 1965 was the 4th edition of the Miss USA World pageant and it was held in Asbury Park, New Jersey and was won by Dianna Lynn Batts of the District of Columbia. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder, Jeanne Marie Quinn of New York. Batts went on to represent the United States at the Miss World 1965 Pageant in London later that year. She finished as 1st Runner-Up at Miss World.
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| Footnotes | ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties | |
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