Long Island, Alabama

Long Island (also called Carpenter, Carpenter Station, and Carpenters Station)[2] is an unincorporated community in the northeastern corner of Jackson County, Alabama, United States. Long Island appears on the Bridgeport U.S. Geological Survey Map.[3] It was reportedly named Carpenter for a family that lived there prior to 1852, when it was given the English form of the original Cherokee name of the village on the long island in the Tennessee River dating from 1783.[4]

Long Island, Alabama
Unincorporated community
Long Island is located in Alabama
Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is located in the United States
Long Island
Long Island
Coordinates: 34°46′11″N 85°41′40″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyJackson
Elevation
646 ft (197 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code256
GNIS feature ID154472[1]

References
  1. "Long Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. John Robert Kennamer: History of Jackson County, Southern Printing & Publishing Co., Winchester, Tenn., 1935, p. 173.
  3. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1:125,000-scale topographic map, "Stevenson", 1895.
  4. Virginia O. Foscue: Place Names in Alabama, The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa and London, 1989, p. 86.


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