Tuscumbia
Tuscumbia is a small town in northwest Alabama near Wheeler Lake and Wilson Lakes, best known as the birthplace of the famous deaf-blind activist and author, Helen Keller.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 9,050 residents
- Description: city in Alabama, United States of America
- Also known as: “Big Spring”, “Cold Water”, “Deshlar Cross Roads”, “Ococoposa”, “Ococoposo”, “Ocoposa”, “Oka Kapassa”, “Tuscumbia, AL”, and “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Postal code: 35674
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
Alabama Music Hall of Fame
Museum
The Alabama Music Hall of Fame, first conceived by the Muscle Shoals Music Association in the early 1980s, was created by the Alabama Music Hall of Fame Board, which then oversaw construction of a 12,500 sq ft facility after a statewide referendum in 1987.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheffield and Village Number 1.
Sheffield
Village
Photo: SistahFee, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sheffield is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. The population was 9,403 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 9,307 in 2023. Sheffield is situated 2½ miles north of Tuscumbia.
Village Number 1
Hamlet
Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Village Number 1, also known as The Village and Nitrate Plant Number 1 Reservation Subdivision, is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, in the United States.
Tuscumbia
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Colbert, Mountains, Alabama, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.7312° or 34° 43′ 52″ northLongitude
-87.7025° or 87° 42′ 9″ westPopulation
9,050Elevation
466 feet (142 metres)United Nations Location Code
US TSCOpen location code
866JP7JW+FXOpenStreetMap ID
node 153646224OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Tuscumbia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توسكومبيا”
- Armenian: “Տասկամբիա”
- Basque: “Tuscumbia”
- Belarusian: “Таскамбія”
- Bulgarian: “Тъскъмбия”
- Catalan: “Tuscumbia”
- Cebuano: “Tuscumbia (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Alabama)”
- Cebuano: “Tuscumbia”
- Chechen: “Таскамби”
- Chinese: “Tuscumbia”
- Chinese: “塔斯坎比亚”
- Czech: “Tuscumbia”
- Danish: “Tuscumbia”
- Dutch: “Tuscumbia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توسكومبيا”
- Faroese: “Tuscumbia”
- Finnish: “Tuscumbia”
- French: “Tuscumbia”
- German: “Tuscumbia”
- Gilaki: “تسکامبیا”
- Greek: “Τασκούμπια”
- Haitian: “Tuscumbia”
- Hebrew: “טוסקומביה”
- Hebrew: “טסקמביה”
- Hungarian: “Tuscumbia”
- Ido: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Ido: “Tuscumbia”
- Indonesian: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Indonesian: “Tuscumbia”
- Irish: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Irish: “Tuscumbia”
- Italian: “Tuscumbia”
- Japanese: “タスカンビア”
- Korean: “터스컴비아”
- Ladin: “Tuscumbia”
- Macedonian: “Таскамбија, Алабама”
- Macedonian: “Таскамбија”
- Malagasy: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Malagasy: “Tuscumbia”
- Mazanderani: “تاسکامبیا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tuscumbia”
- Newari: “टस्कुम्बिया”
- Newari: “तस्कम्बिया, अलाबामा”
- Newari: “तस्कम्बिया”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuscumbia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tuscumbia”
- Norwegian: “Tuscumbia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tuscumbia”
- Persian: “تاسکامبیا، آلاباما”
- Persian: “تاسکامبیا”
- Polish: “Tuscumbia”
- Portuguese: “Tuscumbia”
- Russian: “Таскамбия”
- Serbian: “Tuscumbia”
- Serbian: “Таскамбија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tuscumbia”
- Slovak: “Tuscumbia”
- Slovenian: “Tuscumbia”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاسکامبیا، آلاباما”
- Spanish: “Tuscumbia (Alabama)”
- Spanish: “Tuscumbia”
- Swedish: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Swedish: “Tuscumbia”
- Tajik: “Тоскомбиё”
- Talysh: “Taskambija”
- Tatar: “Таскамбия”
- Turkish: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Turkish: “Tuscumbia”
- Ukrainian: “Таскамбія”
- Uzbek: “Tuscumbia”
- Vietnamese: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Vietnamese: “Tuscumbia”
- Volapük: “Tuscumbia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tuscumbia”
- Welsh: “Tuscumbia, Alabama”
- Welsh: “Tuscumbia”
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