Clayton, Alabama
Clayton is a town in and the county seat of Barbour County, Alabama, United States. The population was 2,265 at the 2020 census.[2]
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 Location of Clayton in Barbour County, Alabama. | |
| Coordinates: 31°52′39″N 85°26′56″W / 31.87750°N 85.44889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Barbour |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.78 sq mi (17.55 km2) |
| • Land | 6.78 sq mi (17.55 km2) |
| • Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
| Elevation | 591 ft (180 m) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 2,265 |
| • Density | 334.27/sq mi (129.06/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 36016 |
| FIPS code | 01-15376 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0116206 |
Geography
Clayton is located at 31°52'39.014" North, 85°26'56.486" West (31.877504, -85.449024).[3]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.8 square miles (18 km2), all of which is land.[1]
Education
Clayton is served by Barbour County Schools. Barbour County High School and Barbour County Primary School are located in the town of Clayton.
Notable natives
- Tyrone 'Ty' Adams (born 1949) - playwright (Conecuh,Wallace: The Clayton Years)
- George W. Andrews (1906–1971) - U.S. House of Representatives
- Billy Beasley (born 1940)- Alabama State Senate
- Jere Beasley (born 1935)- Two term Lieutenant Governor of Alabama and acting Governor of Alabama
- Bertram Tracy Clayton (1862–1918)- U.S. House of Representatives representing New York and U.S. Army officer killed in World War I.
- Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. (1857–1929) - U.S. House of Representatives, author of the Clayton Act regulating antitrust behavior.
- Henry DeLamar Clayton, Sr. (1827–1889) - major general in the Confederate army; President of the University of Alabama
- Preston C. Clayton (d. 1996)- Alabama State Senate and Associate Justice of State of Alabama Supreme Court
- Travis Grant (born 1950) - college and professional basketball player
- Draffus Lamar Hightower (1899–1993)- photographer, reocrded changes to Barbour County through the 20th century[4]
- Clarence Clemet Hodge (1893–1967) - Major League Baseball pitcher
- John E. Horne (1908–1985) - Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration
- Ann Lowe (1899–1981)- Designer of wedding dress for Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis for her marriage to John F. Kennedy.
- James Sammons (1927–2001) - Chairman of the Board of Trustees and later Executive Vice Presidentof the American Medical Association
- George Wallace (1919–1998) - Governor of Alabama and U.S. President candidate
- George C. Wallace, Jr. (born 1951) - Alabama State Treasurer
- Lurleen Wallace (1926–1968) - Governor of Alabama 1926-1968
- James J. Winn (born 1907- ?) - Colonel in U.S. Army; Chief military aide to Gen. George C. Marshall during World War II
Clayton, Alabama Media
The Barbour County Courthouse is located in Clayton.
The post office in Clayton (ZIP code: 36016)
The Petty-Roberts-Beatty House is an octagon house built in 1861 by Benjamin Franklin Petty. It is one of only two antebellum octagonal houses built in Alabama and the only one to survive. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1974.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Clayton city, Alabama". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
- ↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2005-05-03. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ↑ To Remember a Vanishing World: D.L. Hightower's Photography of Barbour County, Alabama, 1930 - 1965. Thomason, Michael V.R. and Michael Thomason,University of Alabama Press (1997) ISBN 0-945477-11-2
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