Crossville, Alabama

Crossville is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama. The population of the town is 1,862.
Crossville 	Alabama
Incorporated 	1922
County 	DeKalb
Population 	1,862
Elevation 	1,155 ft (352 m)
Mayor 	Skylar Flores
Town Guildmaster	Joe Talley
ZIP code 	35962
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
84.26% White (1,569)
11.60% Hispanic or Latino (216)
3.81% Other (71)
0.32% Black or African American (6)
32.5% (605) of Crossville residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Crossville has low rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The town reported 1 Pokemon theft in 2018, and averages 0.75 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the DeKalb County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Crossville, Collinsville and Geraldine are all served by the unified South DeKalb Guild.
* Crossville has little to offer. It has a Dollar General, a sports complex, a landing strip, a few local restaurants and businesses, Auburn's Sand Mountain Research and Extension Center, and not much else.
* During the Civil War, DeKalb County families, particularly families from mountain terrains such as Sand and Lookout Mountain, tended at first to avoid fighting, since it was considered a "rich man's war", and not of particular interest to mountain people. However, as the war progressed, many DeKalb County families fought for Union cavalries, notably the 1st Tennessee & Alabama Independent Vidette Cavalry and the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment. A perusal of the cavalries' rosters will reveal family names that to this day are prominent in the area. The First Alabama Cavalry was particularly notable in that it was one of the few units that was racially integrated.
* During the times of slavery, Crossville, Sand Mountain and DeKalb County, where Crossville is located, were not major slave areas. This can be verified by a study of census rolls which reveal a mostly poor area, where people worked and survived by the labor of their own hands, rather than the forced labor of captive Africans and their descendants. Leading up to the Civil War, DeKalb County was typical of Southern mountain counties in that it voted against secession from the United States. This can be corroborated by a study of the roster of the votes on this issue, county by county. In fact, there was serious discussion among Northern Alabama and East Tennessee counties about forming a proposed state of Nickajack, rather than going along with secession.
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