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McCollum, Alabama

unincorporated community in Alabama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ22058510 ↗
Source-derived summary

McCollum is an unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama, United States. McCollum is located along Alabama State Route 69, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Jasper.

History

McCollum is named for the McCollum family, who were early settlers of the area. A post office operated under the name McCollum from 1903 to 1909. It is located where State Route 69 and State Route 124 split.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “McCollum, Alabama” is unincorporated community in Alabama. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through McCollum, Alabama and unincorporated, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1903, 1909—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, McCollum, Alabama and unincorporated is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “unincorporated community in Alabama” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22058510. Authority coordinates are 33.818, -87.325. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903 and 1909.

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This entry incorporates text from “McCollum, Alabama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.