Byrd, Alabama

Byrd is an unincorporated community in Marion County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.

Byrd
Unincorporated community
Byrd
Location in Alabama.
Coordinates: 34°04′47″N 88°07′56″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyMarion
Elevation
404 ft (123 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)205, 659
GNIS feature ID163214[1]

History

The community is named after the Byrd family, who were early settlers of the area. They also donated land for a school to be built. The school served students in grades one through nine.[2]

gollark: It could likely be run off SDRs or something, at great cost, or just be tunable in a few bands.
gollark: I suppose frequency-hopping GEORGEnet could probably be done.
gollark: For example, no encryption, no music and stuff too, I think the US limits you to 9600 baud (!!!) on some bands, and also you probably can't run tons of traffic over it or someone will be annoyed.
gollark: There are annoying constraints.
gollark: GEORGEnet should obviously run over arbitrary IRC networks, apian carriers, bouncing signals off GTech™ lunar stations, amplitude modulated earthquakes, or ultra-high-intensity transplanetary gamma ray transceivers.

References
  1. "Byrd". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Barbara Woolbright Carruth (2009). Marion County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-7385-6849-2.



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