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Guntersville (previously known as Gunter's Ferry and later Gunter's Landing) is a city and the county seat of Marshall County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census , the population of the city was 8,553. [ 5 ]
Marshall County is a county of the state of Alabama, United States.As of the 2020 census the population was 97,612. [1] Its county seat is Guntersville. [2] A second courthouse is in Albertville.
The lake was created by Guntersville Dam along the Tennessee River. Both the lake and the dam received their names from the town of Guntersville, which received its name from an early settler of the area, John Gunter. As far back as 1824, the Tennessee River was a nationwide inland waterway problem.
Arab (/ ˈ eɪ. r æ b / ⓘ) is a city mostly in Marshall County, with a portion in Cullman County, [7] in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, located 10 miles (16 km) from Guntersville Lake and Guntersville Dam, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The population was 8,461 at the 2020 census. [4]
ZIP code: 29164. Area code(s) 803, 839: FIPS code: 45-74050 [3] GNIS ... The early settlement was known as Pinder Town and later as Guntersville or Gunter's Crossroad ...
Albertville is located in southeastern Marshall County, and is bordered to the southeast by the city of Boaz and to the northwest by the city of Guntersville.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 27.037 square miles (70.03 km 2), of which 26.937 square miles (69.77 km 2) is land and 0.100 square miles (0.26 km 2), is water.
ZIP code: 35740. Area code: 256: FIPS code: 01-09328: GNIS feature ID: 0114905: ... at river mile 410. This section of the river is part of Guntersville Lake, ...
The opening of Guntersville Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1939 turned Guntersville into a peninsula, and created tourism and recreation opportunities on the new lake. Many commercial buildings were constructed after World War II until 1964, in contrast to many small-town downtown areas.