Gazetteer/Almanac
Headnote
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, situated at the northwest comer of Alabama, with Tennessee river on the south. Area, 672 square miles. Face of the country, hilly; soil, productive. Pop. in 1820, 4,963; in 1830, 11,782; in 1840, 14,485; in 1850, 17,172. (Fanning's, 1853)