Broomtown, Alabama

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Broomtown, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Census-designated place
Cherokee County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Broomtown Highlighted 0109880.svg
Location of Broomtown in Cherokee County, Alabama.
Coordinates: 34°22′20″N85°32′12″W / 34.37222°N 85.53667°W / 34.37222; -85.53667
Country United States
State Alabama
County Cherokee
Area
[1]
 • Total
4.70 sq mi (12.16 km2)
 • Land4.70 sq mi (12.16 km2)
 • Water0 sq mi (0.00 km2)
Elevation
[2]
719 ft (219 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
160
 • Density34.1/sq mi (13.16/km2)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes 256 & 938
GNIS feature ID2582666 [2]

Broomtown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 182. [3]

It was named for Chief Broom (Broomstown) of the Cherokee Nation, whose people occupied the area from the late eighteenth century into the 1830s. [4] The Cherokee had migrated southwest under pressure from European-American encroachment in Tennessee and North Carolina, before Indian Removal from the Southeast on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

Fort Likens, a fort used to house soldiers during the Cherokee removal, was located near Broomtown. [5]

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020 160—
U.S. Decennial Census [6]

References

  1. ↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
  2. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Broomtown, Alabama
  3. ↑ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Broomtown CDP, Alabama". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Cherokee County, Ala". Calhoun Times. September 1, 2004. p. 42. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ Marshall, Lamar; Smith, Larry; Wren, Michael (March 2009). Alabama Collection Camps, Forts, Emigrating Depots and Travel Routes Used During the Cherokee Removal of 1838-1839 (PDF) (Report). Muscle Shoals, Alabama: Southeastern Anthropological Institute. Funded by The National Park Service Challenge Cost Share Program.
  6. ↑ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
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