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Chilton County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,643.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01/01021.html )〕 The county seat is Clanton. Its name is in honor of William Parish Chilton, Sr. (1810–1871), a lawyer who became Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and later represented Montgomery County in the Congress of the Confederate States of America. Chilton County is included in the Birmingham-Hoover, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of Alabama was located in Chilton County, near the city of Jemison, an area known as Jemison Division.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/docs/cenpop2010/CenPop2010_Mean_ST.txt )〕 The county is known for its peaches and its unique landscape. It is home to swamps, prairies and mountains due to the foothills of the Appalachians which end in the county, the Coosa River basin, and its proximity to the Black Belt Prairie that was long a center of cotton production. == History == Baker County was established on December 30, 1868, named for Alfred Baker, with its county seat at Grantville. Residents of the county petitioned the Alabama legislature for the renaming of their county; it was not something forced upon them. On December 17, 1874, the petitioners accepted the suggestion of Chilton County, even though the Chief Justice had not lived within its boundaries.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.alagenealogy.com/Histories/History%20of%20Chilton%20County%20Alabama.htm )〕 In 1870 the county seat was moved after the court house burned to what is now Clanton. In 1942, the U.S. Navy commissioned a new vessel, the USS ''Chilton'', in honor of Chilton County. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chilton County, Alabama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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