South, Alabama

South is an unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States. South is located on Alabama State Route 55, 2.6 miles (4.2 km) north of Red Level.

South, Alabama
South, Alabama
South, Alabama
Coordinates: 31°26′40″N 86°36′47″W
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyCovington
Elevation
384 ft (117 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)334
GNIS feature ID127111[1]

History

South may be named for a family or its location in the southern part of Alabama.[2] A post office operated under the name South from 1900 to 1910.[3]

gollark: Even my dirt-cheap phone has an octacore SoC, and while it has half the clockrate of my laptop's CPU and uses some old ARM cores, newer phone CPUs go up to *ten* cores for some reason, can (very briefly, I assume) reach 3GHz, and have better IPC.
gollark: Unless you really like gaming on your phone for some reason, but stop doing that. Or unless you need really good cameras, but there are comparatively cheap ones with good-enough ones.
gollark: yes.
gollark: I mean, in multicore performance, anyway.
gollark: I think some higher-end phones probably have better CPUs than my laptop.

References

  1. "South". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. Foscue, Virginia (1989). Place Names in Alabama. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press. p. 130. ISBN 0-8173-0410-X.
  3. "Covington County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 31 July 2015.



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