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Owens Cross Roads, Alabama

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The town of Owens Cross Roads<1> is located in Madison County.

Typical abbreviation for Owens Cross Roads: Owens Xrds.

Owens Cross Roads is 180 feet [54.86 m] above sea level.<2>

Time Zone: Owens Cross Roads lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Owens Cross Roads, but it seems to be unique to this community.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Owens Cross Roads had a population of 1,124 people<3> (or 0.4% of the total population of Madison County).

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Owens Cross Roads had a population of 1,485 people. This is an increase of 32.12% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Owens Cross Roads.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000		Year-to-Year Change
20081,485+32.12%+2.91% since 2007
20071,443+28.38%+3.22% since 2006
20061,398+24.38%+5.19% since 2005
20051,329+18.24% 
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20001,124The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population		Change
Since 2000
 Arab   S19 mi [30.58 km]7,92410.45% increase
 Grant   SE12 mi [19.31 km]7096.62% increase
 Guntersville   SE19 mi [30.58 km]8,42213.89% increase
 Gurley   NE7 mi [11.27 km]8493.08% decrease
 Huntsville   NW12 mi [19.31 km]176,64511.65% increase
 Madison   W18 mi [28.97 km]38,71432% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Owens Cross Roads.


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For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Owens Cross Roads? Please visit the Map Page for Owens Cross Roads.


Footnotes

<1>Keep in mind that you might find some variations to Owens Cross Roads:

It's frequently the practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Owens Cross Roads may originally have been Owen's Cross Roads. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether. In that case, you may find that a reference to Owen Cross Roads is actually referring to Owens Cross Roads.

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<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Owens Cross Roads - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Owens Cross Roads.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Owens Cross Roads and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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