Chilton County, Alabama

Chilton County
County
Chilton County Courthouse in Clanton
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Location within the U.S. state of Alabama
Alabama's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 32°50′43″N 86°42′52″W / 32.8453°N 86.7144°W / 32.8453; -86.7144
Country	United States
State	Alabama
Founded	December 30, 1868
Named for	William Parish Chilton, Sr.
Seat	Clanton
Largest city	Clanton
Area
• Total	701 sq mi (1,820 km2)
• Land	693 sq mi (1,790 km2)
• Water	7.9 sq mi (20 km2)  1.1%
Population  (2020)
• Total	45,014
• Estimate  (2023)	46,431
• Density	64/sq mi (25/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional districts	3rd, 6th
Website	chiltoncounty.org
County Number 14 on Alabama Licence Plates

Chilton County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 45,014.^[1] 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 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.^[2]

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.