Official Name: | Stanton, Alabama |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Alabama#USA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Alabama |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Coordinates: | 32.7356°N -86.8994°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
Subdivision Name2: | Chilton |
Elevation Ft: | 335 |
Timezone: | Central (CST) |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | CDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 36790 |
Area Code: | 205, 659 |
Stanton is an unincorporated community in Chilton County, Alabama, United States. The community has a post office, with postmasters appointed from 1883 to 2006.[1] A wedge tornado struck here on March 21, 1932 taking seven lives.
Stanton is located at 32.7357°N -86.8997°W and has an elevation of 335feet.
There are two churches in Stanton, Ebenezer Baptist Church, established in 1819, and Stanton Bible Methodist Church, established in 1931.
The Battle of Ebenezer Church took place near Stanton on April 1, 1865, during Wilson's Raid into Alabama in the final full month of the American Civil War.