AL: Individual County Chronologies

ADAMS (Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from non-county area; included parts of present Alabama and Mississippi. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 126-128; Toulmin, Statutes, ch. 1, art. 3/p. 2)

ADAMS (Miss.) lost to creation of WASHINGTON; ADAMS eliminated from present Alabama. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 238-239; Toulmin, Statutes, ch. 1, art. 4/pp. 3-4)

AUTAUGA created by Alabama Territory from MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 56)

AUTAUGA lost to CAHAWBA (now BIBB). (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

AUTAUGA gained from BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 113)

AUTAUGA lost to SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1826, 8th sess., p. 22)

Non-County Area 14 created from Non-County Area 9; Non-County Area 14 detached from MONTGOMERY, attached to AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1826, 8th sess., p. 32)

AUTAUGA lost to SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 93)

AUTAUGA given concurrent jurisdiction with SHELBY and ST. CLAIR over Non-County Area 14. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 30)

Non-County Area 14 lost all territory to MONTGOMERY, ST. CLAIR, and SHELBY; Non-County Area 14 eliminated. Ended AUTAUGA's jurisdiction over the area. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

AUTAUGA gained small area from BIBB to accommodate local property owners [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 128/p. 151)

In late December 1866, AUTAUGA lost to creation of ELMORE. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 312, secs. 1, 4/pp. 484-485)

AUTAUGA lost to creation of BAKER (now CHILTON). (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 142, sec. 1/p. 488)

AUTAUGA lost to BAKER (now CHILTON). (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 12/p. 18)

BAINE (extinct) created from BLOUNT, CALHOUN, CHEROKEE, DE KALB, MARSHALL, and ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

BAINE (extinct) lost to DE KALB and MARSHALL. Change in boundary with BLOUNT and ST. CLAIR was authorized [cannot be demarcated as described; no change]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., nos. 566, 633/pp. 615, 677)

BAINE (extinct) lost all territory to BLOUNT, CALHOUN, CHEROKEE, DE KALB, MARSHALL, and ST. CLAIR; BAINE eliminated. ETOWAH was created 1 December 1868 in the same area, but with different boundaries from those of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

BALDWIN created by Mississippi Territory from WASHINGTON. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 3/pp. 81-82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 96-97)

BALDWIN became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

BALDWIN gained all of Non-County Area 3 (formerly part of GREENE, Miss.). (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21)

BALDWIN gained from CONECUH and MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

BALDWIN lost to Mississippi when surveyors demarcated the southern segment of the Alabama-Mississippi line, fixing the end point ten miles east of the mouth of the Pascagoula River. This southern terminus is approximately 3.7 miles east of its prior location, an adjustment authorized in the act admitting Alabama to the Union on 14 December 1819. (Van Zandt, 108-109)

BALDWIN exchanged with MOBILE and MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 104)

BALDWIN gained from MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 50/p. 94)

BALDWIN lost to creation of ESCAMBIA, and lost small area to MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 34, sec. 1/p. 397)

BALDWIN boundaries were redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1983, reg. sess., no. 83-533, secs. 1-3, 6/pp. 831-832)

BARBOUR created from PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 10/p. 10)

BARBOUR lost small area to HENRY. (Ala. Acts 1843, ann. sess., no. 135/p. 87)

BARBOUR gained small area from PIKE, lost to creation of BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 84, sec. 1/p. 65)

BARBOUR exchanged with BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 335/p. 363)

BARBOUR lost to RUSSELL. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 177/p. 524)

BARBOUR gained small area from BULLOCK to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 86/p. 79)

BARBOUR lost small area to BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 157/p. 164)

BARBOUR gained small area from RUSSELL to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1872, reg. sess., no. 99/p. 137)

BARBOUR lost small area to RUSSELL to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 465/p. 598)

CAHAWBA (now BIBB) created by Alabama Territory from MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 29-30)

CAHAWBA (now BIBB) gained from DALLAS, exchanged with MONTGOMERY, lost to SHELBY and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., pp. 18-21)

CAHAWBA (now BIBB) gained from AUTAUGA, lost to creation of PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

CAHAWBA renamed BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 63)

BIBB lost to AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 113)

BIBB gained from TUSCALOOSA, exchanged with PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 75)

BIBB exchanged with PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 56)

BIBB gained small area from PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 47)

Boundary between BIBB and TUSCALOOSA was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 76)

BIBB exchanged with TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 8)

BIBB gained from SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 42)

BIBB lost small area to AUTAUGA to accommodate local property owners [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 128/p. 151)

BIBB lost to creation of BAKER (now CHILTON). (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 142, sec. 1/p. 488)

BIBB gained small area from PERRY to accommodate local property owners [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1871_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 154/p. 163)

BIBB exchanged with SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 287/p. 580)

BIBB exchanged with SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 221, secs. 1-2/pp. 390-392)

Boundary between BIBB and CHILTON was redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1979, reg. sess., no. 79-364/p. 581)

BIBB exchanged small areas with TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1980, reg. sess., no. 80-622/p. 1064)

BLOUNT created by Alabama Territory from MONTGOMERY and Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 16-18)

BLOUNT lost to creation of JEFFERSON. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 9/p. 52)

BLOUNT lost to Non-County Area 10. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 96)

Boundary between BLOUNT and JEFFERSON was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 69)

BLOUNT gained from Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON, lost to MORGAN. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

BLOUNT lost to creation of MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 47, secs. 1, 13/pp. 47, 49)

BLOUNT lost to creation of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

Legislature authorized a change in the BLOUNT boundary with BAINE (extinct) and ST. CLAIR [cannot be demarcated as described; no change]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 566/p. 615)

BLOUNT gained part of BAINE (extinct); BAINE eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

BLOUNT lost to creation of ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

BLOUNT gained small area from MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 181/p. 185)

BLOUNT lost to creation of CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 56, sec. 1/p. 69)

BLOUNT gained from JEFFERSON and WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 201, sec. 1/p. 229)

BLOUNT exchanged with WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 186/p. 219)

BLOUNT gained from CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 254/p. 280)

BLOUNT lost to ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 283/p. 689)

BLOUNT lost to CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 502/p. 990)

BLOUNT lost to CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 336/p. 766)

BLOUNT gained small area from WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 422/p. 810)

BLOUNT lost small area to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 147/p. 328)

BLOUNT lost to CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 881, secs. 1-3, 5, 7/pp. 2051-2053)

BLOUNT gained small area from ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1976, reg. sess., no. 200/p. 215)

The state of Georgia claimed the area north of 31 degrees north latitude, based on its colonial charter and created BOURBON (Ga., extinct) in present Mississippi. BOURBON was eliminated on 1 February 1788. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 503-505; Watkins and Watkins, 304-305)

BULLOCK created from BARBOUR, MACON, MONTGOMERY, and PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 84, sec. 1/p. 65)

BULLOCK lost small area to PIKE to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1867_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 297/p. 322)

BULLOCK exchanged with BARBOUR. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 335/p. 363)

BULLOCK lost small area to BARBOUR to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 86/p. 79)

BULLOCK lost small area to PIKE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 152/p. 162)

BULLOCK gained small area from BARBOUR. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 157/p. 164)

BULLOCK lost small area to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 464/p. 597)

BULLOCK lost small area to MONTGOMERY to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 206/p. 233)

BULLOCK gained small area from PIKE to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 437/p. 892)

BULLOCK gained small area from PIKE to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1888, bien. sess., no. 232/p. 315)

BULLOCK gained small area from PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1896, bien. sess., no. 359/p. 884)

BUTLER created from CONECUH, DALLAS, and MONROE. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 5/p. 51)

BUTLER gained from PIKE and gained small area from COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 47)

BUTLER lost to COVINGTON and PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 44)

BUTLER lost to creation of LOWNDES. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

BUTLER gained small area from MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 37/p. 21)

BUTLER lost to CONECUH. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 90/p. 87)

BUTLER lost small area to MONROE. (Morse, [pl. 33])

BUTLER gained small area from WILCOX [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1840_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 131/p. 98)

BUTLER lost to CONECUH. (Ala. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 5/p. 9)

BUTLER gained small area from CONECUH to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 129/p. 151)

BUTLER gained from LOWNDES, lost to creation of CRENSHAW, and lost small area to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

BUTLER gained small area from CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 355/p. 386)

BUTLER gained small area from CRENSHAW to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1868, ext. sess., p. 80)

BUTLER gained small area from COVINGTON, exchanged small areas with CRENSHAW [gains from COVINGTON and CRENSHAW too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1887_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 498/p. 988)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) created from ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 1/p. 9)

Part of ST. CLAIR was attached to BENTON (now CALHOUN) [not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1834, ann. sess., no. 7/p. 5; repeated as no. 156/p. 148)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) lost all of ST. CLAIR attachment to creation of CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 179/p. 170)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) gained from CHEROKEE, lost to TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1836, ann. sess., no. 149/p. 118)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) lost to CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 196/p. 157)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) gained small area from CHEROKEE to accommodate local property owners [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1845_pt. for location], lost small area to TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1844, ann. sess., no. 102/p. 58; no. 115/p. 64)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) lost small area to TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1849, 2d bien. sess., no. 242/p. 384)

Boundary between BENTON (now CALHOUN) and CHEROKEE was adjusted [location unknown, not mapped; mistake in description corrected 1 February 1856]. (Ala. Acts 1853, 4th bien. sess., no. 342/p. 218)

BENTON (now CALHOUN) gained small area from CHEROKEE to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1854_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1853, 4th bien. sess., no. 311/p. 202)

Boundary between BENTON (now CALHOUN) and CHEROKEE was clarified to correct mistake of 14 February 1854 [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1855, 5th bien. sess., no. 160/p. 120)

BENTON renamed CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 306/p. 318)

CALHOUN lost to creation of CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 89, sec. 1/p. 71)

CALHOUN lost to creation of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

CALHOUN gained part of BAINE (extinct); BAINE eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

CALHOUN lost to creation of ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

CALHOUN gained from ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 153/p. 162)

CALHOUN lost to CHEROKEE and CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1882, bien. sess., no. 191/p. 347)

CALHOUN exchanged with CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 334/p. 757)

CALHOUN lost to ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 389/p. 798)

CALHOUN exchanged with ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 284, sec. 1/p. 789)

CALHOUN gained from CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1903, bien. sess., loc., no. 389/p. 462)

CALHOUN lost to CLEBURNE. (Ala. Rpts., 146:1)

CALHOUN exchanged with CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 398/p. 519)

CALHOUN lost small area to ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 701/p. 866)

CALHOUN exchanged small areas with ETOWAH [for location of the gain from ETOWAH see 1923_pt.shp; change too small to display on interactive map]. (Ala. Acts 1923, quad. sess., loc., no. 284-285/p. 179)

CHAMBERS created from MONTGOMERY and SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 6/p. 10)

CHAMBERS gained small area from TALLAPOOSA to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 416/p. 554)

CHAMBERS lost to creation of LEE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 61, sec. 1/p. 50)

CHAMBERS lost small area to LEE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 188/p. 175)

CHAMBERS lost small area to LEE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 290/p. 318)

CHAMBERS lost small area to LEE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 584/p. 632)

CHAMBERS lost small area to LEE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 156/p. 164)

CHAMBERS gained small area from LEE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1880, bien. sess., no. 324/p. 467)

CHEROKEE created from JACKSON and ST. CLAIR; CHEROKEE included the part of ST. CLAIR that was attached to BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 179/p. 170)

CHEROKEE lost to BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1836, ann. sess., no. 149/p. 118)

CHEROKEE gained from BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 196/p. 157)

CHEROKEE lost to DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1843, ann. sess., no. 109/p. 69)

CHEROKEE lost small area to BENTON (now CALHOUN) to accommodate local property owners [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1845_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1844, ann. sess., no. 102/p. 58)

Boundary between CHEROKEE and BENTON (now CALHOUN) was adjusted [location unknown, not mapped; mistake in description corrected 1 February 1856]. (Ala. Acts 1853, 4th bien. sess., no. 342/p. 218)

CHEROKEE lost small area to BENTON (now CALHOUN) to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1854_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1853, 4th bien. sess., no. 311/p. 202)

Boundary between CHEROKEE and BENTON (now CALHOUN) was clarified to correct mistake of 14 February 1854 [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1855, 5th bien. sess., no. 160/p. 120)

CHEROKEE gained small area from DE KALB [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 308/p. 319)

CHEROKEE lost to creation of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

Boundary between CHEROKEE and DE KALB was redefined [no discernible change]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 382/p. 420)

CHEROKEE gained part of BAINE (extinct); BAINE eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

CHEROKEE lost to creation of ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

CHEROKEE gained from DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1875, reg. sess., no. 226/p. 350)

CHEROKEE gained from CALHOUN, lost to CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1882, bien. sess., no. 191/p. 347)

CHEROKEE gained small area from DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1884, bien. sess., no. 150/p. 261)

CHEROKEE lost to DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 415/p. 1077)

CHEROKEE lost to ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1931, quad. sess., loc., no. 381/p. 173)

BAKER (now CHILTON) created from AUTAUGA, BIBB, DALLAS, and SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 142, sec. 1/p. 488)

BAKER (now CHILTON) gained from AUTAUGA, lost to DALLAS. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., nos. 11-12/p. 18)

BAKER (now CHILTON) lost to SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1872, reg. sess., no. 101/p. 138)

BAKER renamed CHILTON. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 72/p. 179)

CHILTON gained from DALLAS. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 73/p. 180)

Boundary between CHILTON and BIBB was redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1979, reg. sess., no. 79-364/p. 581)

CHOCTAW created from SUMTER and WASHINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1847, 1st bien. sess., no. 213, sec. 1/p. 306)

CHOCTAW was authorized to gain from SUMTER, and WASHINGTON was authorized to gain from CHOCTAW, dependent on local referendum [local action unknown, no change]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 213/p. 234)

CLAIBORNE (Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from JEFFERSON (Miss.); CLAIBORNE extended eastward to Georgia, thereby overlapping WASHINGTON. (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 88)

CLAIBORNE (Miss.) was eliminated from present Alabama when the Choctaw Indian boundary in present Mississippi was implicitly adopted as the eastern limit of CLAIBORNE (Miss.), ending the overlap with WASHINGTON. (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 90)

CLAIBORNE (Miss.) gained from JEFFERSON (Miss.) in present Mississippi. A mistake in the description would have enlarged CLAIBORNE (Miss.) eastward to Georgia, thereby again overlapping WASHINGTON [mistake corrected 7 February 1807; no change]. (Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 90-91)

Boundary between CLAIBORNE (Miss.) and WASHINGTON was clarified, correcting mistake of 12 March 1803 [no change]. (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 93)

CLARKE created by Mississippi Territory from WASHINGTON. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 5/p. 83; Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 107)

CLARKE became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

CLARKE gained small area from MONROE [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1821_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 68)

CLARKE gained from MONROE and WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 62; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

CLARKE lost to WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

CLARKE gained from WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 30)

CLARKE gained from MONROE. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 226/p. 172)

CLARKE gained small area from MONROE to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1861_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1861, 1st reg. sess., no. 200/p. 201)

Circa 1901, CLARKE exchanged small areas with WILCOX. (Rand, McNally, 1902, 154-155)

CLAY created from RANDOLPH and TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 92)

CLAY lost to CLEBURNE and TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 438/p. 496)

CLAY lost to TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 467/p. 528)

CLAY lost small area to COOSA to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1870_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 333/p. 434)

Legislature authorized CLAY to gain from RANDOLPH [cannot be demarcated as described; no change]. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 155/p. 163)

CLAY gained small area from RANDOLPH. (Ala. Acts 1872, reg. sess., no. 100/p. 138)

CLAY lost to TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 208/p. 233)

CLAY gained small area from TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 207/p. 233)

CLAY gained from TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 170/p. 343)

CLAY exchanged with TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 35, secs. 1-2/pp. 55-56)

CLEBURNE created from CALHOUN, RANDOLPH, and TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 89, sec. 1/p. 71)

CLEBURNE lost to TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 400/p. 432)

CLEBURNE gained from CLAY and TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 438/p. 496)

CLEBURNE gained from CALHOUN and CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1882, bien. sess., no. 191/p. 347)

CLEBURNE exchanged with CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 334/p. 757)

CLEBURNE lost to CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1903, bien. sess., loc., no. 389/p. 462)

CLEBURNE gained from CALHOUN. (Ala. Rpts., 146:1)

CLEBURNE exchanged with CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 398/p. 519)

CLEBURNE exchanged small areas with RANDOLPH. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 432/p. 553)

COFFEE created from DALE. (Ala. Acts 1841, ann. sess., no. 190, sec. 1/p. 152)

COFFEE lost to creation of CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

COFFEE lost to creation of GENEVA. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 446)

COFFEE gained small area from GENEVA to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 87/p. 79; Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 257/p. 300)

COFFEE gained small area from CRENSHAW to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 85/p. 78)

Legislature authorized COFFEE to gain from GENEVA, dependent on local referendum; no evidence found that the required election was held [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 199/p. 228)

COLBERT created from FRANKLIN. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 321, sec. 1/p. 351)

COLBERT lost all territory to FRANKLIN; COLBERT eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 5/p. 163)

COLBERT re-created from FRANKLIN. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 5/p. 6; HRS Ala., Colbert, 4)

COLBERT exchanged small areas with FRANKLIN [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1875_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 463/p. 597)

COLBERT gained from LAWRENCE, lost to FRANKLIN. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 243/p. 408)

CONECUH created by Alabama Territory from MONROE. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/p. 96)

CONECUH lost to BALDWIN and lost to creation of BUTLER and HENRY. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

CONECUH gained from BUTLER. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 90/p. 87)

CONECUH gained from BUTLER. (Ala. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 5/p. 9)

Boundary between CONECUH and MONROE was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1851, 3d bien. sess., no. 332/p. 439)

CONECUH lost small area to BUTLER to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 129/p. 151)

CONECUH lost small area to MONROE to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1865_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 441/p. 566)

CONECUH lost to creation of ESCAMBIA. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 34, sec. 1/p. 397)

CONECUH gained from COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 462/p. 596)

CONECUH gained from ESCAMBIA. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 192/p. 267)

CONECUH gained small area from ESCAMBIA [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1887_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 270/p. 662)

COOSA created from MONTGOMERY and SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 4/p. 9)

COOSA exchanged with MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1837, called sess., no. 2/p. 3)

COOSA gained small area from MONTGOMERY. The remaining boundary between COOSA and MONTGOMERY was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 29/p. 21)

In late December 1866, COOSA lost to creation of ELMORE. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 312, secs. 1, 4/pp. 484-485)

COOSA lost small area to ELMORE. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 44/p. 406)

COOSA gained small area from CLAY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1870_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 333/p. 434)

COOSA exchanged small areas with TALLAPOOSA [mistake in description corrected 20 April 1965]. (Ala. Acts 1963, reg. sess., no. 503/p.1086)

Boundary between COOSA and TALLAPOOSA was redefined, correcting mistake of 14 September 1963 [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1965, 1st spec. sess., no. 202/p. 271)

COVINGTON created from HENRY. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

COVINGTON lost to creation of DALE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 18/pp. 79, 82)

COVINGTON lost small area to BUTLER. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 47)

COVINGTON gained from BUTLER, lost to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 44)

COVINGTON lost to creation of CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

COVINGTON lost to CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 529/p. 581)

COVINGTON renamed JONES. (Ala. Acts 1868, ext. sess., p. 84)

JONES renamed COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1868, called sess., no. 39/p. 257)

COVINGTON gained from CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 95/p. 438)

COVINGTON gained small area from ESCAMBIA to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1870_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 145/p. 159)

COVINGTON lost to CONECUH. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 462/p. 596)

COVINGTON lost small area to BUTLER [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1887_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 498/p. 988)

COVINGTON gained small area from CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1890, bien. sess., no. 24/p. 34)

COVINGTON gained small area from CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 393/p. 878)

CRENSHAW created from BUTLER, COFFEE, COVINGTON, LOWNDES, and PIKE; a provision that would have included part of MONTGOMERY in CRENSHAW was never implemented. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

CRENSHAW lost small area to BUTLER. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 355/p. 386)

CRENSHAW gained from COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 529/p. 581)

CRENSHAW lost small area to LOWNDES and lost to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 540/p. 589; no. 687/p. 747)

CRENSHAW lost small area to BUTLER to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1868, ext. sess., p. 80)

CRENSHAW lost to COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 95/p. 438)

CRENSHAW lost small area to COFFEE to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 85/p. 78)

CRENSHAW gained from PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 203/p. 232)

CRENSHAW exchanged small areas with BUTLER [for location of CRENSHAW loss to BUTLER see 1887_pt.shp; change too small to display on interactive map]. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 498/p. 988)

CRENSHAW lost small area to COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1890, bien. sess., no. 24/p. 34)

CRENSHAW lost small area to COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 393/p. 878)

CULLMAN created from BLOUNT, MARSHALL, MORGAN, and WINSTON. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 56, sec. 1/p. 69)

CULLMAN lost to BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 254/p. 280)

CULLMAN gained from BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 502/p. 990)

CULLMAN gained from BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 336/p. 766)

CULLMAN gained from BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 881, secs. 1-3, 5, 7/pp. 2051-2053)

CULLMAN gained from WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1953, reg. sess., no. 610/p. 868)

DALE created from COVINGTON and HENRY. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 18/pp. 79, 82)

DALE gained from HENRY, lost to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 55)

DALE lost to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 60)

DALE lost small area to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1839, ann. sess., no. 43/p. 112)

DALE lost to creation of COFFEE. (Ala. Acts 1841, ann. sess., no. 190, sec. 1/p. 152)

DALE lost to creation of GENEVA. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 446)

DALE lost to creation of HOUSTON. (Ala. Acts 1903, bien. sess., gen., no. 27/p. 44)

DALLAS created by Alabama Territory from MONROE and MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., sec. 1/p. 47)

DALLAS lost to CAHAWBA (now BIBB). (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 21)

DALLAS gained from MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 76)

DALLAS gained from MONTGOMERY, lost to MARENGO and lost to creation of BUTLER, PERRY, and WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

DALLAS lost to WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 96)

DALLAS lost to PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 117)

DALLAS lost to creation of LOWNDES. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

DALLAS lost to MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1839, ann. sess., no. 60/p. 45)

DALLAS gained from PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 509/p. 567)

DALLAS gained small area from PERRY [area became a DALLAS exclave on 30 December 1868 and was returned to PERRY 28 February 1889]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 111/p. 448)

DALLAS lost to creation of BAKER (now CHILTON). The small area gained by DALLAS from PERRY two days earlier became a DALLAS exclave [corrected 28 February 1889]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 142, sec. 1/p. 488)

DALLAS gained from BAKER (now CHILTON). (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 11/p. 18)

DALLAS lost to CHILTON. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 73/p. 180)

DALLAS lost exclave of December 1868 to PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1888, bien. sess., no. 590/p. 1053)

DECATUR (extinct) created from JACKSON; Non-County Area 12 detached from JACKSON, attached to DECATUR. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

DECATUR (extinct) exchanged with JACKSON. The northern part of Non-County Area 12 was detached from DECATUR and became Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 89)

DECATUR (extinct) lost all territory to JACKSON; DECATUR eliminated. Non-County Area 12 (formerly attached to DECATUR) became part of Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 15)

DE KALB created from JACKSON and ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 179/p. 170)

DE KALB exchanged with MARSHALL. Boundary between DE KALB and JACKSON was adjusted [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 199/p. 158)

DE KALB gained from CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1843, ann. sess., no. 109/p. 69)

DE KALB lost to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1847, 1st bien. sess., no. 273/p. 363)

DE KALB gained from JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1853, 4th bien. sess., no. 296/p. 184)

DE KALB gained small area from JACKSON to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1858_pt. for location], and DE KALB lost to MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 335/p. 337)

DE KALB lost small area to CHEROKEE [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 308/p. 319)

DE KALB gained from JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1859, 7th bien. sess., no. 383/p. 523)

DE KALB lost to creation of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

Boundary between DE KALB and CHEROKEE was redefined [no discernible change]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 382/p. 420)

DE KALB gained from BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 633/p. 677)

DE KALB gained part of BAINE (extinct); BAINE eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

DE KALB lost to creation of ETOWAH and lost to MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

Legislature authorized DE KALB to gain from JACKSON, dependent on local referendum [repealed 8 February 1872]; no evidence found that the referendum was held [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 353/p. 449)

Act of 3 March 1870, intended to change the boundary between DE KALB and JACKSON, was repealed [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 151/p. 161)

DE KALB lost to CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1875, reg. sess., no. 226/p. 350)

DE KALB gained from MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 210/p. 235)

DE KALB lost to ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 193/p. 225)

DE KALB lost to MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 191/p. 224)

DE KALB lost small area to CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1884, bien. sess., no. 150/p. 261)

DE KALB gained from CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 415/p. 1077)

The United States and Spanish West Florida both claimed the area south of Mississippi Territory between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers, including parts of present Alabama and Mississippi. Spain actually governed this area. Map depicts the disputed area in present Alabama and Mississippi. (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 38 [1804], sec. 1/p. 283; Van Zandt, 107)

American forces captured the city of Mobile from Spain, effectively extending United States control over the territory between the Pearl and Perdido Rivers, previously claimed by the United States as part of Louisiana. (Cox, facing 2; Fuller, 202)

In late December 1866, ELMORE was created from AUTAUGA, COOSA, MONTGOMERY, and TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 312, secs. 1, 4/pp. 484-485)

ELMORE gained small area from COOSA. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 44/p. 406)

ELMORE gained small area from TALLAPOOSA to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 125/p. 105)

ELMORE lost to MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1923, quad. sess., loc., no. 128/p. 50)

ESCAMBIA created from BALDWIN and CONECUH. A narrow strip of territory along the state line was inadvertently omitted from the formal definition of ESCAMBIA [mistake corrected 5 March 1907]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 34, sec. 1/p. 397)

ESCAMBIA lost small area to COVINGTON to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1870_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 145/p. 159)

ESCAMBIA lost to CONECUH. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 192/p. 267)

ESCAMBIA lost small area to CONECUH [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1887_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 270/p. 662)

Southern boundary of ESCAMBIA was clarified to match state line, correcting mistake of 10 December 1868 [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 238/p. 403)

ETOWAH created from BLOUNT, CALHOUN, CHEROKEE, DE KALB, MARSHALL, and ST. CLAIR. ETOWAH boundaries differed from those of BAINE (extinct), which had been located in the same area. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

ETOWAH lost small area to ST. CLAIR to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 62/p. 417)

ETOWAH lost to ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 74/p. 65)

ETOWAH lost to CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 153/p. 162)

ETOWAH gained from DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 193/p. 225)

ETOWAH gained from CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 389/p. 798)

ETOWAH exchanged with CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 284, sec. 1/p. 789)

ETOWAH gained small area from CALHOUN. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 701/p. 866)

ETOWAH exchanged small areas with CALHOUN [for location of the loss to CALHOUN see 1923_pt.shp; change too small to display on interactive map]. (Ala. Acts 1923, quad. sess., loc., no. 284-285/p. 179)

ETOWAH gained from CHEROKEE. (Ala. Acts 1931, quad. sess., loc., no. 381/p. 173)

ETOWAH lost small area to BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1976, reg. sess., no. 200/p. 215)

FAYETTE created from MARION, PICKENS, TUSCALOOSA, and WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 12/pp. 77-78)

FAYETTE gained from MARION. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 29)

FAYETTE gained from TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 95)

FAYETTE gained from MARION. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 49/p. 38)

FAYETTE lost to WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 200/p. 158)

FAYETTE gained from MARION, lost to creation of JONES (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 288/p. 317; no. 298, sec. 1/p. 323)

FAYETTE gained part of JONES (extinct); JONES eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 1/p. 161)

FAYETTE lost to creation of SANFORD (now LAMAR). (Ala. Acts 1868, called sess., no. 13/p. 216)

FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct) created by Orleans Territory from non-county area; included parts of present Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Spain actually controlled much of the area. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., p. 210)

PASCAGOULA Parish (Orleans Territory, extinct) created by Orleans Territory within FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct); included parts of present Alabama and Mississippi. No change was made to the underlying boundaries of FELICIANA County. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., p. 214)

PASCAGOULA Parish (Orleans Territory, extinct) gained area within FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct) in present Alabama. No change was made to the underlying boundaries of FELICIANA County. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., p. 216)

The state of Louisiana was admitted to the Union from Orleans Territory; Orleans Territory eliminated. FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct) lost all territory in present Alabama and Mississippi. (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 50 [1812], secs. 1, 6/pp. 701, 704; ch. 57 [1812]/p. 708)

FRANKLIN created by Alabama Territory from a small area of MONTGOMERY and Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9)

FRANKLIN boundary in the Tennessee River was adjusted to run in the middle of the stream [not mapped]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 49)

Southern boundary of FRANKLIN was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 39)

Non-County Area 7 belonging to the Chickasaw Indians was attached to FRANKLIN. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

Part of Non-County Area 7 attached to FRANKLIN was detached and became part of MARION. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

FRANKLIN gained all of attached Non-County Area 7; Non-County Area 7 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

FRANKLIN boundaries were redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 11)

FRANKLIN lost to creation of COLBERT. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 321, sec. 1/p. 351)

FRANKLIN gained all of COLBERT; COLBERT eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 5/p. 163)

FRANKLIN lost to re-creation of COLBERT. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 5/p. 6; HRS Ala., Colbert, 4)

FRANKLIN exchanged small areas with COLBERT [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1875_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 463/p. 597)

FRANKLIN gained from COLBERT. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 243/p. 408)

GENEVA created from COFFEE, DALE, and HENRY. A strip of territory along the state line was inadvertently omitted from the formal definition of GENEVA [mistake corrected 11 February 1870]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 446)

Southern boundary of GENEVA was clarified to match state line, correcting mistake of 26 December 1868 [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 108/p. 97)

GENEVA lost small area to COFFEE to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 87/p. 79; Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 257/p. 300)

Legislature authorized GENEVA to be renamed GORDON, dependent on local referendum; there is no evidence that the required election was held [no change]. Legislature also authorized GENEVA to gain from HENRY and authorized COFFEE to gain from GENEVA, dependent on local referendum; no evidence was found that the required election was held [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., nos. 199-200/pp. 228-230)

GENEVA lost to creation of HOUSTON. (Ala. Acts 1903, bien. sess., gen., no. 27/p. 44)

Georgia claimed all of present Alabama and Mississippi north of 31 degrees north latitude based on its colonial charter. (Cappon, Petchenik, and Long, 1, 77; Shortt and Doughty, 119-120)

Georgia continued to claim all of present Alabama and Mississippi north of 31 degrees north latitude; BOURBON (Ga.) eliminated. (Watkins and Watkins, 370-371)

The United States created Mississippi Territory. Georgia continued to claim this area under its colonial charter, and the federal act said that creation of the territory would not impair Georgia's claim. (U.S. Stat., vol. 1, ch. 28 [1798], secs. 1, 3, 5/pp. 549-550)

Georgia and the United States made a two-part agreement: the United States ceded to Georgia all claims to any territory south of North Carolina and west of the Appalachian watershed that it received in 1787 from South Carolina; Georgia ceded to the United States all territory south of North Carolina and Tennessee, east of the Mississippi River, north of the parallel of 31 degrees north latitude, and west of the present western limit of Georgia, that is, much of present Alabama and Mississippi. This area became unorganized federal territory. (Paullin, 83; Terr. Papers U.S., 5:142-143; Van Zandt, 100)

GREENE (Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from WAYNE (Miss.); included part of present Alabama. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 4/p. 82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 104-105)

GREENE (Miss.) lost to Non-County Area 3 when the United States created Alabama Territory from the eastern half of Mississippi Territory; GREENE (Miss.) eliminated from present Alabama. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

GREENE created from MARENGO and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 8/p. 52)

GREENE gained from PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 75)

GREENE gained narrow strip all along PICKENS boundary [not mapped]; GREENE lost small areas to PICKENS and TUSCALOOSA [for TUSCALOOSA location, see 1832_pt.shp; change too small to display on interactive map. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 38)

GREENE gained from PICKENS. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 227/p. 173)

GREENE gained small area from TUSCALOOSA to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1864, called sess., no. 50/p. 37)

GREENE gained from PICKENS, lost to creation of HALE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 418, secs. 1, 9/pp. 477, 480)

GREENE lost to HALE when the boundary line was moved from the east bank to the middle of Black Warrior River [not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1880, bien. sess., no. 139/p. 178)

HALE created from GREENE, MARENGO, PERRY, and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 418, secs. 1, 9/pp. 477, 480)

HALE lost small area to MARENGO [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1870_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 87/p. 75)

HALE gained from PERRY. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 209/p. 235)

HALE gained from GREENE when the boundary line was moved from the east bank to the middle of Black Warrior River [not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1880, bien. sess., no. 139/p. 178)

HENRY created from CONECUH. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 6/p. 51)

HENRY lost to creation of COVINGTON and PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

HENRY lost to creation of DALE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 18/pp. 79, 82)

HENRY lost to DALE. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 55)

HENRY gained from PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 29)

Boundary between HENRY and PIKE was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 9/p. 66)

HENRY gained small area from BARBOUR. (Ala. Acts 1843, ann. sess., no. 135/p. 87)

HENRY lost to creation of GENEVA. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 446)

Legislature authorized GENEVA to gain from HENRY, dependent on local referendum; no evidence found that the required election was held [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 199/p. 228)

HENRY lost to creation of HOUSTON. (Ala. Acts 1903, bien. sess., gen., no. 27/p. 44)

HOUSTON created from DALE, GENEVA, and HENRY. (Ala. Acts 1903, bien. sess., gen., no. 27/p. 44)

JACKSON (Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from MOBILE; JACKSON (Miss.) included part of present Alabama. Spain actually controlled much of the area. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 6/p. 83; Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 108)

American forces captured the city of Mobile from Spain, effectively extending United States control over the territory between the Pearl and Perdido Rivers, previously claimed by the United States as part of Louisiana and where JACKSON (Miss.) had been created. (Cox, facing 2; Fuller, 202)

JACKSON (Miss.) lost to Non-County Area 4 when the United States created Alabama Territory from the eastern half of Mississippi Territory; JACKSON (Miss.) eliminated from present Alabama. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

JACKSON created from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 17/p. 54)

Non-County Area 12 created from Non-County Area 11; Non-County Area 12 detached from MORGAN, attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 17)

JACKSON lost to creation of DECATUR (extinct); Non-County Area 12 detached from JACKSON, attached to DECATUR. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

JACKSON exchanged with DECATUR (extinct); northern part of Non-County Area 12 detached from DECATUR, became Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 89)

JACKSON gained all of DECATUR; DECATUR eliminated. Non-County Area 12 (formerly attached to DECATUR) became part of Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 15)

JACKSON lost to MADISON. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 10)

JACKSON gained part of attached Non-County Area 13; lost remainder of attached Non-County Area 13 to BLOUNT, MORGAN, and ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

JACKSON gained from ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1833, ann. sess., no. 26/p. 14)

JACKSON lost to MADISON and lost to creation of CHEROKEE, DE KALB, and MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 47, secs. 1, 13/pp. 47, 49; no. 179/p. 170)

Boundary between JACKSON and DE KALB was adjusted [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 199/p. 158)

JACKSON gained from DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1847, 1st bien. sess., no. 273/p. 363)

JACKSON gained small area from MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1851, 3d bien. sess., no. 337/p. 441)

JACKSON lost to DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1853, 4th bien. sess., no. 296/p. 184)

JACKSON lost to MARSHALL and lost small area to DE KALB to accommodate local property owner [for location of loss to DE KALB see 1858_pt.shp; change too small to display on interactive map]. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 335/p. 337)

JACKSON lost to DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1859, 7th bien. sess., no. 383/p. 523)

Legislature authorized DE KALB to gain from JACKSON dependent on local referendum [repealed 8 February 1872]; no evidence found that referendum was held [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 353/p. 449)

Act of 3 March 1870, intended to change the boundary between JACKSON and DE KALB, was repealed [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 151/p. 161)

JEFFERSON created from BLOUNT, ST. CLAIR, and SHELBY. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 9/p. 52)

JEFFERSON exchanged with ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 90)

JEFFERSON gained from ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1823, 5th sess., p. 85)

JEFFERSON lost to creation of WALKER and lost small area to TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1823, 5th sess., sec. 1/p. 82)

JEFFERSON exchanged with TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 99)

Boundary between JEFFERSON and BLOUNT was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 69)

After 1 April 1833, JEFFERSON gained from SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., secs. 3, 6/p. 30; Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 53, secs. 1, 8/pp. 30-31)

JEFFERSON exchanged with TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1839, ann. sess., no. 103/p. 142)

JEFFERSON gained small area from SHELBY to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1841, ann. sess., no. 97/p. 92)

JEFFERSON gained small area from TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1851, 3d bien. sess., no. 335/p. 440)

JEFFERSON gained from SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1861, called sess., no. 77/p. 67)

JEFFERSON lost to SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1861, 1st reg. sess., no. 213/p. 207)

JEFFERSON gained small area from SHELBY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1862_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 137/p. 156)

JEFFERSON gained from SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 84/p. 78)

JEFFERSON lost to BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 201, sec. 1/p. 229)

JEFFERSON gained small area from SHELBY [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1878_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 194/p. 226)

JEFFERSON gained from SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1884, bien. sess., no. 155/p. 267)

JEFFERSON gained small area from BLOUNT, exchanged with WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 147/p. 328)

JEFFERSON exchanged with ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., no. 423/p. 322)

JEFFERSON exchanged with ST. CLAIR and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., nos. 800, 819/pp. 490, 491)

JEFFERSON exchanged with SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1943, reg. sess., loc., no. 293, secs. 1, 3/pp. 173, 177)

JEFFERSON gained small area from SHELBY [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1979_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1979, reg. sess., no. 79-806/p. 1485; Shelby County Probate Court, correspondence, 15 Nov. 1989)

JONES (extinct) created from FAYETTE and MARION. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 298, sec. 1/p. 323)

JONES (extinct) lost all territory to FAYETTE and MARION; JONES eliminated. On 8 October 1868 SANFORD (now LAMAR) was created with boundaries identical to those of JONES (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 1/p. 161)

SANFORD (now LAMAR) created from FAYETTE and MARION; boundaries were identical to those of JONES (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1868, called sess., no. 13/p. 216)

SANFORD renamed LAMAR. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 205/p. 232)

LAUDERDALE created by Alabama Territory from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 12-13)

LAUDERDALE boundary in the Tennessee River was adjusted to run in the middle of the stream [not mapped]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 49)

LAUDERDALE lost to LIMESTONE. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 72)

LAWRENCE created by Alabama Territory from a small area of MONTGOMERY and Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9)

LAWRENCE boundary in the Tennessee River was adjusted to run in the middle of the stream [not mapped]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 49)

Southern boundary of LAWRENCE was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 39)

LAWRENCE lost to COLBERT. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 243/p. 408)

LEE created from CHAMBERS, MACON, RUSSELL, and TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 61, sec. 1/p. 50)

LEE gained small area from CHAMBERS to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 188/p. 175)

LEE gained small area from CHAMBERS to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 290/p. 318)

LEE lost small area to TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 480/p. 543)

LEE gained small area from CHAMBERS to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 584/p. 632)

LEE gained small area from CHAMBERS to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 156/p. 164)

LEE lost small area to MACON. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 198/p. 227)

LEE lost small area to CHAMBERS to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1880, bien. sess., no. 324/p. 467)

Boundary between LEE and RUSSELL was adjusted [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1888, bien. sess., no. 184/p. 180)

LEE gained small area from TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., no. 212/p. 170)

LEE exchanged with RUSSELL. (Ala. Acts 1932, ext. sess., loc., no. 49/p. 16)

LIMESTONE created by Alabama Territory from MADISON and Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 12-13)

LIMESTONE boundary in the Tennessee River was adjusted to run in the middle of the stream [not mapped]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 49)

LIMESTONE gained from LAUDERDALE. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 72)

LOWNDES created from BUTLER, DALLAS, MONTGOMERY, PIKE, and WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

LOWNDES gained small area from MONTGOMERY [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1841_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1841, ann. sess., no. 153/p. 129)

LOWNDES lost to BUTLER and to creation of CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

LOWNDES gained small area from CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 687/p. 747)

MACON created from MONTGOMERY and PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 8/p. 10)

MACON gained from MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1833, ann. sess., no. 10/p. 6)

MACON gained from PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 27/p. 20)

MACON lost small area to RUSSELL. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 84/p. 78)

MACON gained small area from RUSSELL to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 197/p. 157)

MACON lost to TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1844, ann. sess., no. 120/p. 66)

MACON gained from TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1845, ann. sess., no. 178/p. 154)

MACON lost to creation of BULLOCK and LEE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 61, sec. 1/p. 50; no. 84, sec. 1/p. 65)

MACON gained small area from LEE. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 198/p. 227)

MACON gained small area from TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1884, bien. sess., no. 379/p. 676)

MADISON created by Mississippi Territory from Non-County Area 1. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 2/pp. 80-81)

MADISON became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

MADISON gained from Non-County Area 1, lost to creation of LIMESTONE and lost small area to creation of COTACO (now MORGAN). (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9, 12-13)

MADISON boundary in the Tennessee River was adjusted to run in the middle of the stream [not mapped]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 49)

MADISON gained from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

MADISON gained from JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 10)

MADISON gained from JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 47, secs. 1, 13/pp. 47, 49)

MADISON lost to MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 44/p. 36)

MARENGO created by Alabama Territory from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 16-18)

MARENGO gained all of Non-County Area 5; Non-County Area 5 eliminated. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 57)

MARENGO gained from DALLAS; lost to creation of GREENE, PERRY, and WILCOX. MARENGO lost small area to TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

Non-County Area 6 belonging to the Choctaw Indians was attached to MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

MARENGO gained small area from WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 62; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

MARENGO lost all of attached Non-County Area 6 to PICKENS and WASHINGTON, and to the creation of SUMTER. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 11)

MARENGO gained from DALLAS. (Ala. Acts 1839, ann. sess., no. 60/p. 45)

MARENGO gained small area from PERRY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1863_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1863, 3d reg. sess., no. 199/p. 151)

MARENGO lost small area to PERRY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1863_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1863, 3d reg. sess., no. 201/p. 152)

MARENGO gained small area from PERRY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1866_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 450/p. 571)

MARENGO lost to creation of HALE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 418, secs. 1, 9/pp. 477, 480)

MARENGO gained small area from HALE; MARENGO gained small area from PERRY to accommodate local property owner [for location of both gains see 1870_pt.shp; change too small to display on interactive map]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 80/p. 69; no. 87/p. 75)

MARION created by Alabama Territory from TUSCALOOSA; included most of TUSCALOOSA's overlap into the state of Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/p. 96)

MARION gained part of Non-County Area 7 attached to FRANKLIN, exchanged with TUSCALOOSA, lost to creation of PICKENS, lost territory that overlapped Mississippi, and lost to creation of Non-County Area 10. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

MARION gained from Non-County Area 10. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 143)

MARION lost to creation of WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1823, 5th sess., sec. 1/p. 82)

MARION lost to creation of FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 12/pp. 77-78)

MARION lost to FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 29)

MARION boundaries were redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 11)

MARION lost to FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 49/p. 38)

MARION lost to FAYETTE and lost to creation of JONES (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 288/p. 317; no. 298, sec. 1/p. 323)

MARION gained part of JONES (extinct); JONES eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 1/p. 161)

MARION lost to creation of SANFORD (now LAMAR). (Ala. Acts 1868, called sess., no. 13/p. 216)

MARSHALL created from BLOUNT and JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 47, secs. 1, 13/pp. 47, 49)

MARSHALL gained from MADISON. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 44/p. 36)

MARSHALL gained from MORGAN. (Ala. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 6/p. 9)

MARSHALL exchanged with DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 199/p. 158)

MARSHALL lost small area to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1851, 3d bien. sess., no. 337/p. 441)

MARSHALL gained from DE KALB and JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 335/p. 337)

MARSHALL lost to creation of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

MARSHALL gained from BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 633/p. 677)

MARSHALL gained part of BAINE (extinct); BAINE eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

MARSHALL gained from DE KALB, lost to creation of ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

MARSHALL lost small area to BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 181/p. 185)

MARSHALL lost to creation of CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 56, sec. 1/p. 69)

MARSHALL lost to DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 210/p. 235)

MARSHALL gained from DE KALB. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 191/p. 224)

The United States created Mississippi Territory. Boundaries were: on the west, the Mississippi River; on the north, a line running due east from the mouth of the Yazoo River to the Chattahoochee River; on the east, the Chattahoochee River; and on the south, the parallel of 31 degrees north latitude. Mississippi Territory covered the south-central portions of present Alabama and Mississippi. Georgia claimed this area under its colonial charter, and the federal act stated that the creation of the territory would not impair Georgia's claim. (U.S. Stat., vol. 1, ch. 28 [1798], secs. 1, 3, 5/pp. 549-550)

All non-county area in Mississippi Territory was eliminated when ADAMS (Miss.) and PICKERING (now JEFFERSON, Miss.) were created. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 126-128; Toulmin, Statutes, ch. 1, art. 3/p. 2)

Following the admission of Louisiana into the Union, the United States formally added the remnant of Orleans Territory lying south of 31 degrees north latitude and between the Pearl and Perdido Rivers to Mississippi Territory. The transfer officially occurred 14 May 1812. Spain retained actual control of the area. (Fuller, 199; U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 84 [1812]/p. 734; Van Zandt, 105)

MOBILE created by Mississippi Territory from non-county area in present Alabama and Mississippi that was claimed, but not fully controlled, by the United States. (Terr. Papers U.S., 6:305)

MOBILE created by Mississippi Territory from non-county area in present Alabama and Mississippi that was claimed, but not fully controlled, by the United States. Spain actually controlled much of the area. (Terr. Papers U.S., 6:305)

MOBILE lost to creation of HANCOCK (Miss.) and JACKSON (Miss.). (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 6/p. 83; Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 108)

American forces captured the city of Mobile from Spain, effectively extending United States control over the territory between the Pearl and Perdido Rivers, previously claimed by the United States as part of Louisiana and where MOBILE had been created. (Cox, facing 2; Fuller, 202)

MOBILE became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

MOBILE gained all of Non-County Area 4 (formerly part of JACKSON, Miss.); included part of present Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21)

MOBILE lost to Mississippi when surveyors demarcated the southern segment of the Alabama-Mississippi line, fixing the end point ten miles east of the mouth of the Pascagoula River. This southern terminus is approximately 3.7 miles east of its prior location, an adjustment authorized in the act admitting Alabama to the Union on 14 December 1819. (Van Zandt, 108-109)

MOBILE exchanged with BALDWIN. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 104)

MOBILE lost to WASHINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., pp. 44-45)

MOBILE lost to BALDWIN. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 50/p. 94)

MOBILE lost small area to WASHINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1859, 7th bien. sess., no. 416/p. 556)

MOBILE gained small area from WASHINGTON to accommodate local property owners [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1863_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1863, called sess., no. 30/p. 31)

MOBILE exchanged with WASHINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 514/p. 1174)

MOBILE lost small area to WASHINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 450/p. 890)

MOBILE gained small area from WASHINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 800/p. 1937)

MOBILE boundaries were redefined [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1983, reg. sess., no. 83-533, secs. 1-3, 6/pp. 831-832)

MONROE created by Mississippi Territory from Non-County Area 1. (Terr. Papers U.S., 6:538)

MONROE lost to creation of MONTGOMERY. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 8/p. 83; Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 464)

MONROE became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

MONROE lost to creation of DALLAS. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., sec. 1/p. 47)

MONROE lost to creation of CONECUH; MONROE was divided into two parts by this creation. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/p. 96)

MONROE lost to BALDWIN and lost to creation of BUTLER and WILCOX. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

MONROE exchanged with BALDWIN. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 104)

MONROE lost small area to CLARKE [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1821_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 68)

MONROE lost to CLARKE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 62; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

MONROE lost small area to BUTLER. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 37/p. 21)

MONROE gained small area from BUTLER. (Morse, [pl. 33])

MONROE lost to CLARKE. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 226/p. 172)

Boundary between MONROE and CONECUH was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1851, 3d bien. sess., no. 332/p. 439)

MONROE lost small area to CLARKE to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1861_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1861, 1st reg. sess., no. 200/p. 201)

MONROE gained small area from CONECUH to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1865_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 441/p. 566)

MONROE gained small area from BALDWIN. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 34, sec. 1/p. 397)

MONTGOMERY created by Mississippi Territory from MONROE. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 8/p. 83; Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 464)

MONTGOMERY became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

MONTGOMERY lost to creation of BLOUNT, FRANKLIN, LAWRENCE, and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9, 16-18)

MONTGOMERY lost small area (Fort Williams) to Non-County Area 1, and lost to creation of CAHAWBA (now BIBB) and SHELBY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 29-30)

MONTGOMERY lost to creation of DALLAS; MONTGOMERY was divided into two parts by this creation. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., sec. 1/p. 47)

MONTGOMERY exchanged with CAHAWBA (now BIBB). (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 21)

MONTGOMERY lost to DALLAS and lost to creation of AUTAUGA. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., pp. 56, 76)

MONTGOMERY lost to DALLAS and to creation of WILCOX; MONTGOMERY was no longer divided in two parts. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

Non-County Area 9 belonging to the Creek Indians was attached to MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

MONTGOMERY lost to creation of PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

MONTGOMERY gained from PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., p. 87)

Non-County Area 9 attached to MONTGOMERY lost to creation of Non-County Area 14; Non-County Area 14 detached from MONTGOMERY, attached to AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1826, 8th sess., p. 32)

MONTGOMERY gained part of Non-County Area 14 that was concurrently attached to AUTAUGA, ST. CLAIR, and SHELBY. MONTGOMERY also gained part of Non-County Area 9 attached to MONTGOMERY; and lost remaining part of Non-County Area 9 attachment to PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

MONTGOMERY lost to creation of LOWNDES. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

MONTGOMERY lost to SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 31)

MONTGOMERY lost to PIKE and lost to creation of CHAMBERS, COOSA, MACON, RUSSELL, and TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/pp. 9-11)

MONTGOMERY lost to MACON. (Ala. Acts 1833, ann. sess., no. 10/p. 6)

MONTGOMERY exchanged with COOSA. (Ala. Acts 1837, called sess., no. 2/p. 3)

MONTGOMERY lost small area to COOSA. The remaining boundary between MONTGOMERY and COOSA was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 29/p. 21)

MONTGOMERY gained from TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1838, ann. sess., no. 95/p. 99)

MONTGOMERY lost small area to LOWNDES [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1841_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1841, ann. sess., no. 153/p. 129)

MONTGOMERY gained small area from PIKE to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1862_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 153/p. 164)

A provision in the law creating CRENSHAW would have included part of MONTGOMERY in CRENSHAW, but the change was never implemented [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

MONTGOMERY lost to creation of BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 84, sec. 1/p. 65)

In late December 1866, MONTGOMERY lost to creation of ELMORE. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 312, secs. 1, 4/pp. 484-485)

MONTGOMERY gained small area from BULLOCK to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 206/p. 233)

MONTGOMERY gained from ELMORE. (Ala. Acts 1923, quad. sess., loc., no. 128/p. 50)

COTACO (now MORGAN) created by Alabama Territory from Non-County Area 1 and a small part of MADISON. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9)

COTACO (now MORGAN) boundary in the Tennessee River was adjusted to run in the middle of the stream [not mapped]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 49)

Southern boundary of COTACO (now MORGAN) was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 39)

Non-County Area 11 created from Non-County Area 8; Non-County Area 11 was detached from ST. CLAIR, attached to COTACO (now MORGAN). (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 76; Toulmin, Digest, ch. 8/p. 171)

COTACO renamed MORGAN. (Ala. Acts 1821, called sess., p. 40)

Non-County Area 11 lost to creation of Non-County Area 12; Non-County Area 12 detached from MORGAN, attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 17)

MORGAN gained from BLOUNT, from Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON, and gained all of Non-County Area 11 attached to MORGAN. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

MORGAN lost to MARSHALL. (Ala. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 6/p. 9)

MORGAN lost to creation of CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 56, sec. 1/p. 69)

Mississippi Territory gained unorganized federal territory south of Tennessee (northern portions of present Alabama and Mississippi). Map depicts non-county area in Mississippi Territory that was located in present Alabama. (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 61 [1804], sec. 7/p. 305)

Non-County Area 1 lost to creation of MADISON. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 2/pp. 80-81)

Non-County Area 1 gained from WASHINGTON. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 3/pp. 81-82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 96-97)

Non-County Area 1 lost to creation of MONROE. (Terr. Papers U.S., 6:538)

Non-County Area 1 became part of Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

Non-County Area 1 lost to MADISON and lost to the creation of BLOUNT, COTACO (now MORGAN), FRANKLIN, LAUDERDALE, LAWRENCE, LIMESTONE, MARENGO, TUSCALOOSA, and Non-County Areas 5, 6, and 7. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9, 12-13, 16-18)

Non-County Area 1 gained small area from MONTGOMERY (Fort Williams), lost to creation of SHELBY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 29-30)

Non-County Area 1 lost small area to SHELBY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 18-19)

Non-County Area 1 lost to creation of JACKSON, Non-County Area 8, and Non-County Area 9. Non-County Area 1 also lost to MADISON; Non-County Area 1 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

Non-County Area 2 was created from WAYNE (Miss.) when Alabama Territory was created from Mississippi Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

WASHINGTON gained all of Non-County Area 2 (formerly part of WAYNE, Miss.); Non-County Area 2 eliminated. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21)

Non-County Area 3 was created from GREENE (Miss.) when Alabama Territory was created from Mississippi Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

BALDWIN gained all of Non-County Area 3 (formerly part of GREENE, Miss.); Non-County Area 3 eliminated. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21)

Non-County Area 4 was created from JACKSON (Miss.) when Alabama Territory was created from Mississippi Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

MOBILE gained all of Non-County Area 4 (formerly part of JACKSON, Miss.); Non-County Area 4 eliminated. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21)

Non-County Area 5 created from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9, 12-13, 16-18)

Non-County Area 5 lost all territory to MARENGO; Non-County Area 5 eliminated. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 57)

Non-County Area 6 (Choctaw Indian lands) was created from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9, 12-13, 16-18)

Non-County Area 6 (Choctaw Indian lands) was attached to MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

Non-County Area 6 attached to MARENGO lost to creation of SUMTER, and lost to PICKENS and WASHINGTON; Non-County Area 6 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 11)

Non-County Area 7 (Chickasaw Indian lands) was created from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 8-9, 12-13, 16-18)

Non-County Area 7 (Chickasaw Indian lands) was attached to FRANKLIN. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

Part of Non-County Area 7 attached to FRANKLIN lost to MARION. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

Non-County Area 7 attached to FRANKLIN lost all territory to FRANKLIN; Non-County Area 7 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

Non-County Area 8 (Cherokee Indian lands) was created from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

Non-County Area 8 (Cherokee Indian lands) was attached to ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

Non-County Area 8 attached to ST. CLAIR lost to creation of Non-County Area 11. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 76; Toulmin, Digest, ch. 8/p. 171)

Non-County Area 8 attached to ST. CLAIR lost all territory to ST. CLAIR; Non-County Area 8 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

Non-County Area 9 (Creek Indian lands) was created from Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess./pp. 50-57; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

Non-County Area 9 (Creek Indian lands) was attached to MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

Non-County Area 9 attached to MONTGOMERY lost to creation of Non-County Area 14; Non-County Area 14 detached from MONTGOMERY, attached to AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1826, 8th sess., p. 32)

Non-County Area 9 attached to MONTGOMERY lost all territory to MONTGOMERY and PIKE; Non-County Area 9 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

Non-County Area 10 created from MARION. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

Non-County Area 10 gained from BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 96)

Non-County Area 10 lost all territory to MARION and TUSCALOOSA; Non-County Area 10 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 143)

Non-County Area 11 created from Non-County Area 8; Non-County Area 11 detached from ST. CLAIR, attached to COTACO (now MORGAN). (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 76; Toulmin, Digest, ch. 8/p. 171)

Non-County Area 11 lost to creation of Non-County Area 12; Non-County Area 12 detached from MORGAN, attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 17)

Non-County Area 11 attached to MORGAN lost all territory to MORGAN; Non-County Area 11 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 35)

Non-County Area 12 created from Non-County Area 11; Non-County Area 12 detached from MORGAN, attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 17)

Non-County Area 12 detached from JACKSON, attached to DECATUR (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

Non-County Area 12 lost to creation of Non-County Area 13; Non-County Area 13 detached from DECATUR (extinct), attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 89)

Non-County Area 12 attached to DECATUR became part of Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON when DECATUR was eliminated. Non-County Area 12 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 15)

Non-County Area 13 created from Non-County Area 12; Non-County Area 13 detached from DECATUR (extinct), attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 96)

Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON gained all of Non-County Area 12; Non-County Area 12 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 15)

Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON lost all territory to BLOUNT, JACKSON, MORGAN, and ST. CLAIR; Non-County Area 13 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., pp. 35)

Non-County Area 14 created from Non-County Area 9; Non-County Area 14 detached from MONTGOMERY, attached to AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1826, 8th sess., p. 32)

Concurrent jurisdiction over Non-County Area 14 was given to AUTAUGA, SHELBY, and ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 30)

Non-County Area 14 lost all territory to MONTGOMERY, ST. CLAIR, and SHELBY; Non-County Area 14 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

The United States created Orleans Territory from that portion of Louisiana south of the parallel of 33 degrees north latitude west of the Mississippi River, and south of Mississippi Territory east of the river to the Perdido River; this included part of West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers (including the southern portions of present Alabama and Mississippi), claimed by the United States as part of Louisiana but actually governed by Spain. (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 38 [1804], sec. 1/p. 283; Van Zandt, 107)

FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct) created by Orleans Territory from non-county area; included parts of present Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Spain actually controlled much of the area. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., p. 210)

Overlap Area 1 was created when CLAIBORNE (Miss.) was created by Mississippi Territory from JEFFERSON (Miss.); CLAIBORNE extended eastward to Georgia, thereby overlapping WASHINGTON. (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 88)

Overlap between WASHINGTON and CLAIBORNE (Miss.) ended when the Choctaw Indian boundary in present Mississippi was implicitly adopted as the eastern limit of CLAIBORNE (Miss.). (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 90)

Overlap Area 2 was created when TUSCALOOSA was created and overlapped non-county area in the state of Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 16-18)

TUSCALOOSA lost to creation of MARION; TUSCALOOSA's overlap of non-county area in the state of Mississippi was reduced. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/p. 96)

TUSCALOOSA overlap of the state of Mississippi ended when TUSCALOOSA exchanged with MARION and lost to creation of PICKENS; Overlap Area 2 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

Overlap Area 3 was created when MARION was created from TUSCALOOSA; MARION overlapped non-county area in the state of Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/p. 96)

MARION overlap of the state of Mississippi ended when MARION gained part of Non-County Area 7, exchanged with TUSCALOOSA and lost to creation of PICKENS; Overlap Area 3 eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

PASCAGOULA Parish (Orleans Territory, extinct) created by Orleans Territory within FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct); included parts of present Alabama and Mississippi. Spain controlled much of the area until 1813. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., p. 214)

PASCAGOULA Parish (Orleans Territory, extinct) gained area within FELICIANA County (Orleans Territory, extinct) in present Alabama. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., p. 216)

PASCAGOULA Parish (Orleans Territory, extinct) boundaries were redefined [no change]. (Orleans Terr. Acts 1811, 2d sess., ch. 28, sec. 6/p. 122)

The state of Louisiana was admitted to the Union from Orleans Territory; Orleans Territory eliminated. PASCAGOULA Parish (Orleans Territory) eliminated. The area encompassed by PASCAGOULA was formally added to Mississippi Territory on 14 May 1812. (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 50 [1812], secs. 1, 6/pp. 701, 704; ch. 57 [1812]/p. 708)

PERRY created from CAHAWBA (now BIBB), DALLAS, MARENGO, and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 7/p. 52)

PERRY exchanged with BIBB, lost to GREENE and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 75)

PERRY exchanged with BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 56)

PERRY gained from DALLAS. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 117)

PERRY lost small area to BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 47)

PERRY lost small area to MARENGO to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1863_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1863, 3d reg. sess., no. 199/p. 151)

PERRY gained small area from MARENGO to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1863_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1863, 3d reg. sess., no. 201/p. 152)

PERRY lost small area to MARENGO to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1866_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 450/p. 571)

PERRY lost to creation of HALE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 418, secs. 1, 9/pp. 477, 480)

PERRY lost to DALLAS. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 509/p. 567)

PERRY lost small area to DALLAS [area became a DALLAS exclave on 30 December 1868 and was returned to PERRY 28 February 1889]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 111/p. 448)

The small area gained by DALLAS from PERRY two days earlier became a DALLAS exclave when BAKER (now CHILTON) was created [corrected 28 February 1889]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 142, sec. 1/p. 488)

PERRY lost small area to MARENGO to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1870_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 80/p. 69)

PERRY lost small area to BIBB to accommodate local property owners [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1871_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 154/p. 163)

PERRY lost to HALE. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 209/p. 235)

PERRY gained the DALLAS exclave dating from December 1868. (Ala. Acts 1888, bien. sess., no. 590/p. 1053)

PICKENS created from MARION and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

PICKENS gained from TUSCALOOSA, lost to creation of FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 12/pp. 77-78)

PICKENS gained small area from GREENE. PICKENS lost narrow strip all along GREENE boundary [not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 38)

PICKENS gained from Non-County Area 6 attached to MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 11)

PICKENS lost to GREENE. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 227/p. 173)

PICKENS lost to GREENE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 418, secs. 1, 9/pp. 477, 480)

PICKERING (now JEFFERSON, Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from non-county area; included parts of present Alabama and Mississippi. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 126-128; Toulmin, Statutes, ch. 1, art. 3/p. 2)

PICKERING (now JEFFERSON, Miss.) lost to creation of WASHINGTON; PICKERING eliminated from present Alabama. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 238-239; Toulmin, Statutes, ch. 1, art. 4/pp. 3-4)

PIKE created from HENRY and MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1821, 3d sess., p. 71)

PIKE lost to MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., p. 87)

PIKE gained from DALE. (Ala. Acts 1825, 7th sess., p. 55)

PIKE lost to BUTLER. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 47)

PIKE gained from DALE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 60)

PIKE gained from BUTLER and COVINGTON. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 44)

PIKE gained from Non-County Area 9 attached to MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

PIKE lost to creation of LOWNDES. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

PIKE lost to HENRY. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 29)

Boundary between PIKE and HENRY was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 9/p. 66)

PIKE gained from MONTGOMERY, lost to creation of BARBOUR, MACON, and RUSSELL. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/pp. 10-11)

PIKE lost to MACON. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 27/p. 20)

PIKE gained small area from DALE. (Ala. Acts 1839, ann. sess., no. 43/p. 112)

PIKE lost small area to MONTGOMERY to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1862_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 153/p. 164)

PIKE gained small area from BUTLER, lost to creation of CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 39, secs. 1-2/p. 38)

PIKE lost small area to BARBOUR and lost to creation of BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 84, sec. 1/p. 65)

PIKE gained small area from BULLOCK to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1867_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 297/p. 322)

PIKE gained from CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 540/p. 589)

PIKE gained small area from BULLOCK to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 152/p. 162)

PIKE gained small area from BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 464/p. 597)

PIKE lost to CRENSHAW. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 203/p. 232)

PIKE lost small area to BULLOCK to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 437/p. 892)

PIKE lost small area to BULLOCK to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1888, bien. sess., no. 232/p. 315)

PIKE lost small area to BULLOCK. (Ala. Acts 1896, bien. sess., no. 359/p. 884)

RANDOLPH created from ST. CLAIR and SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 3/p. 9)

RANDOLPH lost to creation of CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 89, sec. 1/p. 71)

RANDOLPH lost to creation of CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 92)

Legislature authorized CLAY to gain from RANDOLPH [cannot be demarcated as described; no change]. (Ala. Acts 1871, reg. sess., no. 155/p. 163)

RANDOLPH lost small area to CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1872, reg. sess., no. 100/p. 138)

RANDOLPH exchanged small areas with CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 432/p. 553)

RUSSELL created from MONTGOMERY and PIKE. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 7/p. 10)

RUSSELL gained small area from MACON. (Ala. Acts 1837, ann. sess., no. 84/p. 78)

RUSSELL lost small area to MACON to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 197/p. 157)

RUSSELL lost to creation of LEE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 61, sec. 1/p. 50)

RUSSELL gained from BARBOUR. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 177/p. 524)

RUSSELL lost small area to BARBOUR to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1872, reg. sess., no. 99/p. 137)

RUSSELL gained small area from BARBOUR to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1874, reg. sess., no. 465/p. 598)

Boundary between RUSSELL and LEE was adjusted [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1888, bien. sess., no. 184/p. 180)

RUSSELL exchanged with LEE. (Ala. Acts 1932, ext. sess., loc., no. 49/p. 16)

ST. CLAIR created by Alabama Territory from SHELBY. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 18-19)

ST. CLAIR lost to creation of JEFFERSON. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 9/p. 52)

Non-County Area 8 belonging to the Cherokee Indians was attached to ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., p. 34)

Non-County Area 8 attached to ST. CLAIR lost to creation of Non-County Area 11; Non-County Area 11 was detached from ST. CLAIR, attached to COTACO (now MORGAN). (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 76; Toulmin, Digest, ch. 8/p. 171)

ST. CLAIR exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 90)

ST. CLAIR lost to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1823, 5th sess., p. 85)

ST. CLAIR given concurrent jurisdiction with AUTAUGA and SHELBY over Non-County Area 14. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 30)

ST. CLAIR gained part of Non-County Area 14 that had been concurrently attached to ST. CLAIR, AUTAUGA, and SHELBY. Non-County Area 8 remained attached to ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

ST. CLAIR exchanged with SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 30)

ST. CLAIR gained all of attached Non-County Area 8 and gained part of Non-County Area 13 attached to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., pp. 35)

ST. CLAIR lost to creation of BENTON (now CALHOUN), RANDOLPH, and TALLADEGA. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 9)

ST. CLAIR lost to JACKSON. (Ala. Acts 1833, ann. sess., no. 26/p. 14)

Part of ST. CLAIR was attached to BENTON (now CALHOUN) [not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1834, ann. sess., no. 7/p. 5; repeated as no. 156/p. 148)

ST. CLAIR lost to creation of DE KALB and CHEROKEE; the loss to CHEROKEE included the part that was attached to BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1835, ann. sess., no. 179/p. 170)

ST. CLAIR lost to creation of BAINE (extinct). (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 92, sec. 1/p. 76)

Legislature authorized a change in the boundaries of ST. CLAIR with BAINE (extinct) and BLOUNT [cannot be demarcated as described; no change]. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 566/p. 615)

ST. CLAIR gained part of BAINE (extinct); BAINE eliminated. (Ala. Acts 1868, Ord. of St. Conv. [1867], no. 27/p. 178)

ST. CLAIR lost to creation of ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 20, sec. 1/p. 359)

ST. CLAIR gained small area from ETOWAH to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 62/p. 417)

ST. CLAIR gained from ETOWAH. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 74/p. 65)

ST. CLAIR gained from BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1886, bien. sess., no. 283/p. 689)

ST. CLAIR exchanged with SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 320/p. 679)

ST. CLAIR exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., no. 423/p. 322)

ST. CLAIR exchanged with JEFFERSON. Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., no. 800/p. 490)

SHELBY created by Alabama Territory from MONTGOMERY and Non-County Area 1. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 29-30)

SHELBY gained from CAHAWBA (now BIBB) and gained small area from Non-County Area 1; SHELBY lost to creation of ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., secs. 1-2/pp. 18-19)

SHELBY lost to creation of JEFFERSON. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 9/p. 52)

SHELBY gained from AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1826, 8th sess., p. 22)

SHELBY gained from AUTAUGA. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 93)

SHELBY was given concurrent jurisdiction with AUTAUGA and ST. CLAIR over Non-County Area 14. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 30)

SHELBY gained part of Non-County Area 14 that had been concurrently attached to SHELBY, AUTAUGA, and ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 65)

SHELBY gained from MONTGOMERY, exchanged with ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., pp. 30-31)

SHELBY lost to BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 42)

SHELBY lost to creation of CHAMBERS, COOSA, RANDOLPH, TALLADEGA, and TALLAPOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/pp. 9-10)

After 1 April 1833, SHELBY lost to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., secs. 3, 6/p. 30; Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 53, secs. 1, 8/pp. 30-31)

SHELBY lost small area to JEFFERSON to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1841, ann. sess., no. 97/p. 92)

SHELBY lost to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1861, called sess., no. 77/p. 67)

SHELBY gained from JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1861, 1st reg. sess., no. 213/p. 207)

SHELBY lost small area to JEFFERSON to accommodate local property owner [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1862_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1862, 2d reg. sess., no. 137/p. 156)

SHELBY lost to creation of BAKER (now CHILTON). (Ala. Acts 1868, reg. sess., no. 142, sec. 1/p. 488)

SHELBY lost to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1870, reg. sess., no. 84/p. 78)

SHELBY gained from BAKER (now CHILTON). (Ala. Acts 1872, reg. sess., no. 101/p. 138)

SHELBY lost small area to JEFFERSON [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1878_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 194/p. 226)

SHELBY lost to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1884, bien. sess., no. 155/p. 267)

SHELBY exchanged with ST. CLAIR. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 320/p. 679)

SHELBY exchanged with BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 287/p. 580)

SHELBY exchanged with BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1907, quad. sess., loc., no. 221, secs. 1-2/pp. 390-392)

SHELBY exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1943, reg. sess., loc., no. 293, secs. 1, 3/pp. 173, 177)

SHELBY lost small area to JEFFERSON [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1979_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1979, reg. sess., no. 79-806/p. 1485; Shelby County Probate Court, correspondence, 15 Nov. 1989)

Spain controlled West Florida, which included the area south of 31 degrees north latitude from the Mississippi River east to the Chattahoochee River (parts of present Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida); map depicts area in present Alabama and Mississippi only. Spain also claimed territory north of this line [that area is not mapped here]. (Cappon, Petchenik, and Long, 14, 74, 87; Whitaker, facing 68)

The United States created Orleans Territory, which included the area south of Mississippi Territory between the Mississippi and Perdido Rivers. Spain continued to claim and govern this area as part of Spanish West Florida. (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 38 [1804], sec. 1/p. 283; Van Zandt, 107)

Spanish claims to that part of West Florida between the Pearl and Perdido Rivers effectively ended when the area was formally added to Mississippi Territory, but Spain continued to retain control until April 1813. (Fuller, 199; U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 84 [1812]/p. 734; Van Zandt, 105)

American forces captured the city of Mobile from Spain, effectively extending United States control over the territory between the Pearl and Perdido Rivers; Spanish control and claims to the area effectively ended. (Cox, facing 2; Fuller, 202)

SUMTER created from Non-County Area 6 attached to MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 13/p. 11)

SUMTER lost to creation of CHOCTAW. (Ala. Acts 1847, 1st bien. sess., no. 213, sec. 1/p. 306)

Legislature authorized CHOCTAW to gain from SUMTER, dependent on local referendum [local action unknown, no change]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 213/p. 234)

TALLADEGA created from ST. CLAIR and SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, sec. 2/p. 9)

TALLADEGA gained from BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1836, ann. sess., no. 149/p. 118)

TALLADEGA gained small area from BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1844, ann. sess., no. 115/p. 64)

TALLADEGA gained small area from BENTON (now CALHOUN). (Ala. Acts 1849, 2d bien. sess., no. 242/p. 384)

TALLADEGA lost to creation of CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 89, sec. 1/p. 71)

TALLADEGA lost to creation of CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 110, sec. 1/p. 92)

TALLADEGA gained from CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 400/p. 432)

TALLADEGA gained from CLAY, lost to CLEBURNE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 438/p. 496)

TALLADEGA gained from CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 467/p. 528)

TALLADEGA gained from CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 208/p. 233)

TALLADEGA lost to CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 170/p. 343)

TALLADEGA exchanged with CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 35, secs. 1-2/pp. 55-56)

TALLAPOOSA created from MONTGOMERY and SHELBY. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11, secs. 5, 9/pp. 9-10)

TALLAPOOSA lost to MONTGOMERY. (Ala. Acts 1838, ann. sess., no. 95/p. 99)

TALLAPOOSA gained from MACON. (Ala. Acts 1844, ann. sess., no. 120/p. 66)

TALLAPOOSA lost to MACON. (Ala. Acts 1845, ann. sess., no. 178/p. 154)

TALLAPOOSA lost small area to CHAMBERS to accommodate local property owner. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 416/p. 554)

TALLAPOOSA lost to creation of LEE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 61, sec. 1/p. 50)

In late December 1866, TALLAPOOSA lost to creation of ELMORE. (Ala. Acts 1865, reg. sess., no. 312, secs. 1, 4/pp. 484-485)

TALLAPOOSA gained small area from LEE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 480/p. 543)

TALLAPOOSA lost small area to ELMORE to accommodate local property owners. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 125/p. 105)

TALLAPOOSA lost small area to CLAY. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 207/p. 233)

TALLAPOOSA lost small area to MACON. (Ala. Acts 1884, bien. sess., no. 379/p. 676)

TALLAPOOSA lost small area to LEE. (Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., no. 212/p. 170)

TALLAPOOSA exchanged small areas with COOSA [mistake in description corrected 20 April 1965]. (Ala. Acts 1963, reg. sess., no. 503/p.1086)

Boundary between TALLAPOOSA and COOSA was redefined, correcting mistake of 14 September 1963 [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1965, 1st spec. sess., no. 202/p. 271)

TUSCALOOSA created by Alabama Territory from MONTGOMERY and Non-County Area 1; TUSCALOOSA overlapped non-county area in the state of Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-3/pp. 16-18)

TUSCALOOSA lost to creation of MARION; TUSCALOOSA lost most of the territory that overlapped the state of Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., secs. 1-2/p. 96)

TUSCALOOSA gained small area from CAHAWBA (now BIBB). (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 2d sess., p. 21)

TUSCALOOSA gained small area from MARENGO, lost to creation of GREENE and PERRY. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., secs. 7-8/p. 52)

TUSCALOOSA exchanged with MARION, lost to creation of PICKENS. TUSCALOOSA's overlap of the state of Mississippi ended. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., secs. 1, 9/pp. 90, 92)

TUSCALOOSA gained from PERRY, lost to BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1820, 2d sess., p. 75)

TUSCALOOSA gained from Non-County Area 10. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 143)

TUSCALOOSA lost to creation of WALKER and gained small area from JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1823, 5th sess., sec. 1/p. 82)

TUSCALOOSA lost to PICKENS and lost to the creation of FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 12/pp. 77-78)

TUSCALOOSA lost to WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., p. 87)

TUSCALOOSA exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 99)

Boundary between TUSCALOOSA and BIBB was clarified [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1827, 9th sess., p. 76)

TUSCALOOSA exchanged with BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 8)

TUSCALOOSA lost to FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 95)

TUSCALOOSA gained small area from GREENE [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1832_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1831, 13th sess., p. 38)

TUSCALOOSA exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1839, ann. sess., no. 103/p. 142)

Legislature authorized WALKER to gain from TUSCALOOSA, but the description was faulty and was never implemented [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1849, 2d bien. sess., no. 58/p. 90)

TUSCALOOSA lost small area to JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1851, 3d bien. sess., no. 335/p. 440)

TUSCALOOSA lost small area to GREENE to accommodate local property owner [location unknown, not mapped]. (Ala. Acts 1864, called sess., no. 50/p. 37)

TUSCALOOSA lost to creation of HALE. (Ala. Acts 1866, reg. sess., no. 418, secs. 1, 9/pp. 477, 480)

TUSCALOOSA exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1915, quad. sess., loc., no. 819/p. 491)

Circa 1927, TUSCALOOSA lost small area to WALKER, ending boundary dispute dating from the nineteenth century. (Walker County Assessor's Office, correspondence, 10 Feb. 1990; Tuscaloosa County Tax Assessor's Office, correspondence, 1 Feb. 1990)

TUSCALOOSA exchanged small areas with BIBB. (Ala. Acts 1980, reg. sess., no. 80-622/p. 1064)

Georgia and the United States made a two-part agreement: the United States ceded to Georgia all claims to any territory south of North Carolina and west of the Appalachian watershed that it received in 1787 from South Carolina; Georgia ceded to the United States all territory south of North Carolina and Tennessee, east of the Mississippi River, north of the parallel of 31 degrees north latitude, and west of the present western limit of Georgia, that is, much of present Alabama and Mississippi. This area became unorganized federal territory. (Paullin, 83; Terr. Papers U.S., 5:142-143; Van Zandt, 100)

Mississippi Territory gained all the unorganized federal territory south of Tennessee (northern portions of present Alabama and Mississippi). (U.S. Stat., vol. 2, ch. 61 [1804], sec. 7/p. 305)

WALKER created from JEFFERSON, MARION, and TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1823, 5th sess., sec. 1/p. 82)

WALKER lost to creation of FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., secs. 1, 12/pp. 77-78)

WALKER gained from TUSCALOOSA. (Ala. Acts 1824, 6th sess., p. 87)

WALKER gained from FAYETTE. (Ala. Acts 1842, ann. sess., no. 200/p. 158)

WALKER lost to creation of HANCOCK (now WINSTON). The legislature authorized WALKER to gain from TUSCALOOSA, but the description was faulty and was never implemented [no change]. (Ala. Acts 1849, 2d bien. sess., no. 58/p. 90)

WALKER lost to BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 201, sec. 1/p. 229)

WALKER exchanged with BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1878, bien. sess., no. 186/p. 219)

WALKER lost small area to BLOUNT. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 422/p. 810)

WALKER exchanged with JEFFERSON. (Ala. Acts 1898, bien. sess., loc., no. 147/p. 328)

WALKER exchanged with WINSTON. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 1183/p. 2680)

Circa 1927, WALKER gained small area from TUSCALOOSA, ending boundary dispute dating from the nineteenth century. (Walker County Assessor's Office, correspondence, 10 Feb. 1990; Tuscaloosa County Tax Assessor's Office, correspondence, 1 Feb. 1990)

WALKER lost to CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1953, reg. sess., no. 610/p. 868)

WASHINGTON created by Mississippi Territory from ADAMS (Miss.) and PICKERING (now JEFFERSON, Miss.); included part of present Mississippi. (Rowland, Miss. Terr. Arch., 238-239; Toulmin, Statutes, ch. 1, art. 4/pp. 3-4)

CLAIBORNE (Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from JEFFERSON (Miss.); CLAIBORNE extended eastward to Georgia, thereby overlapping WASHINGTON. (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 88)

WASHINGTON overlap with CLAIBORNE (Miss.) ended when the Choctaw Indian boundary in present Mississippi was implicitly adopted as the eastern limit of CLAIBORNE (Miss.). (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 90)

A mistake in an act changing the boundaries of CLAIBORNE (Miss.) would have enlarged CLAIBORNE (Miss.) eastward to Georgia, thereby again overlapping WASHINGTON [mistake corrected 7 February 1807; no change]. (Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 90-91)

Boundary between WASHINGTON and CLAIBORNE (Miss.) was clarified, correcting mistake of 12 March 1803 [no change]. (Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 93)

WASHINGTON lost to Non-County Area 1 and lost to creation of BALDWIN and WAYNE (Miss.). (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 3/pp. 81-82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 96-97)

WASHINGTON lost to creation of CLARKE. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 5/p. 83; Miss. Terr. Stat., p. 107)

WASHINGTON became a county in Alabama Territory. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

WASHINGTON gained all of Non-County Area 2 (formerly part of WAYNE, Miss.); WASHINGTON included a small part of present Mississippi. (Ala. Terr. Acts 1818, 1st sess., p. 21)

WASHINGTON lost to Mississippi when surveyors demarcated the southern segment of the Alabama-Mississippi line, fixing the end point ten miles east of the mouth of the Pascagoula River. This southern terminus is approximately 3.7 miles east of its prior location, an adjustment authorized in the act admitting Alabama to the Union on 14 December 1819. (Van Zandt, 108-109)

WASHINGTON gained from MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., pp. 44-45)

WASHINGTON gained from Non-County Area 6 attached to MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1832, ann. sess., no. 11/p. 11)

WASHINGTON lost to creation of CHOCTAW. (Ala. Acts 1847, 1st bien. sess., no. 213, sec. 1/p. 306)

WASHINGTON gained small area from MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1859, 7th bien. sess., no. 416/p. 556)

WASHINGTON lost small area to MOBILE to accommodate local property owners [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1863_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1863, called sess., no. 30/p. 31)

Legislature authorized WASHINGTON to gain from CHOCTAW, dependent on local referendum [local action unknown, no change]. (Ala. Acts 1869, reg. sess., no. 213/p. 234)

WASHINGTON exchanged with MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1892, bien. sess., no. 514/p. 1174)

WASHINGTON gained small area from MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1894, bien. sess., no. 450/p. 890)

WASHINGTON lost small area to MOBILE. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 800/p. 1937)

WAYNE (Miss.) created by Mississippi Territory from WASHINGTON; included part of present Alabama. (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 3/pp. 81-82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 96-97)

WAYNE (Miss.) lost to creation of GREENE (Miss.) and MARION (Miss.). (Toulmin, Digest, ch. 4/p. 82; Miss. Terr. Stat., pp. 104-105)

WAYNE (Miss.) lost to Non-County Area 2 when the United States created Alabama Territory from the eastern half of Mississippi Territory; WAYNE (Miss.) eliminated from present Alabama. (U.S. Stat., vol. 3, ch. 59 [1817], sec. 1/p. 371)

WILCOX created from DALLAS, MONROE, MONTGOMERY, and a small area of MARENGO. (Ala. Rpts., 215:640; Ala. Acts 1819, 1st sess., sec. 2/p. 50)

WILCOX gained from DALLAS. (Ala. Acts 1822, 4th sess., p. 96)

WILCOX lost to CLARKE and MARENGO. (Ala. Acts 1828, 10th sess., p. 62; Ala. Rpts., 215:640)

WILCOX gained from CLARKE, lost to creation of LOWNDES. (Ala. Acts 1829, 11th sess., p. 25)

WILCOX lost to CLARKE. (Ala. Acts 1830, 12th sess., p. 30)

WILCOX lost small area to BUTLER [change too small to display on interactive map; shapefile users see small_changes 1840_pt. for location]. (Ala. Acts 1840, ann. sess., no. 131/p. 98)

Circa 1901, WILCOX exchanged small areas with CLARKE. (Rand, McNally, 1902, 154-155)

HANCOCK (now WINSTON) created from WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1849, 2d bien. sess., no. 58/p. 90)

HANCOCK renamed WINSTON. (Ala. Acts 1857, 6th bien. sess., no. 322/p. 327)

WINSTON lost to creation of CULLMAN. (Ala. Acts 1876, bien. sess., no. 56, sec. 1/p. 69)

WINSTON exchanged with WALKER. (Ala. Acts 1900, bien. sess., no. 1183/p. 2680)

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