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Chapman, Alabama

Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

31°40′17″N 86°42′44″W / 31.67139°N 86.71222°W / 31.67139; -86.71222CountryUnited StatesStateAlabamaCountyButlerElevation

259 ft (79 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)ZIP code

36015

Area code334GNIS feature ID117963^[1]

Chapman is an unincorporated community in Butler County, Alabama, United States. Chapman is located on County Route 37, 2.9 miles (4.7 km) west-northwest of Georgiana.^[2] Chapman has a post office with ZIP code 36015.^[3]

History

Chapman is located on the former Louisville and Nashville Railroad and was founded as a lumber town. It was the headquarters of the W. T. Smith Lumber Company, one of the oldest lumber firms in Alabama.^[4] At one point, Chapman contained three sawmills, a veneer mill, a box factory, two barrel factories, and forty-four company houses.^[5] The W. T. Smith Company sponsored baseball teams for both white and black workers. Uniforms were provided for both teams, and they were given two-week vacations to play in summer baseball tournaments.^[6]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1920	1,142	—
1930	1,189	4.1%
1940	1,167	−1.9%
1950	943	−19.2%
1960	617	−34.6%
U.S. Decennial Census^[7]

References

^ "Chapman". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ Butler County, Alabama General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). Alabama Department of Transportation. 2008. Retrieved March 11, 2012.^{[dead link]}
^ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code". Retrieved February 15, 2012.
^ James E. Fickle (February 28, 2014). Green Gold: Alabama's Forests and Forest Industries. University of Alabama Press. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8173-1813-0.
^ Wayne Flynt (October 10, 2004). Alabama in the Twentieth Century. University of Alabama Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-8173-1430-9.
^ William Powell Jones (2005). The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois Press. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-252-02979-0.
^ "U.S. Decennial Census". Census.gov. Archived from the original on May 7, 2015. Retrieved June 6, 2013.