Springville, Alabama
town in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States
Springville is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in December 1880. At the 2020 census the population was 4,786, up from 4,080 in 2010.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 9.66 square miles (25.0 km2), of which 9.62 square miles (24.9 km2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.31%) is water.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Springville had a population of 4,786. The median age was 42.9 years. 23.8% of residents were under the age of 18 and 19.5% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 97.0 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 92.1 males age 18 and over.
0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Springville, Alabama” is town in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Springville, Alabama and town, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “town in St. Clair County, Alabama, United States” 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.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q80023. VIAF identifies the subject as 123306696. The Library of Congress control number is n94005814. Authority coordinates are 33.769, -86.471. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1880, 2020 and 2010.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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Three-step research path
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This entry incorporates text from “Springville, 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.