Greensboro, Alabama, United States

🇺🇸 Greensboro is a city in Hale County, Alabama, United States. The city is the county seat of Hale County, Alabama, which was not organized until 1867. It is part of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History Greensboro was incorporated as a town in December 1823 as "Greensborough". It was named in honor of American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. The name was soon simplified to "Greensboro". The community was known as "Troy" prior to incorporation.

Reflecting the history of the antebellum years and a culture built on cotton plantations to produce the commodity crop, several sites on the National Register of Historic Places in or near Greensboro are connected to this past. These include Glencairn, the Greensboro Historic District, Magnolia Grove, the McGehee-Stringfellow House, Millwood, and the Payne House.

One hundred years later, African Americans in Greensboro were among those in the state continuing to work to regain their civil rights after years of second-class status under Jim Crow. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, came here in the course of his civil rights projects in the state. In 1968, he hid from Ku Klux Klan members in what is now operated as the Safe House Black Historic Museum.

The southern part of the city was heavily damaged by a low-end EF2 tornado on January 12, 2023.

Geography Greensboro is slightly south-east of the centre of Hale County and is crossed by Alabama State Routes 14, 25, and 69. SR 14 leads north-west 21 miles (34 km) to Eutaw and east 19 miles (31 km) to Marion. SR 25 leads north-east through Talladega National Forest 36 miles (58 km) to Brent and south 32 miles (51 km) to Thomaston. SR 69 leads north 38 miles (61 km) to Tuscaloosa and south-west 33 miles (53 km) to Linden. Demopolis is 25 miles (40 km) to the south-west via SR 69 and U.S. Route 80.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Greensboro has a total area of 2.4 square miles (6.2 km²), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km²), or 0.40%, are water.

Government and infrastructure The city of Greensboro has a mayor-council form of government. There is a full-time police force with approximately 13 officers. The city has a volunteer fire department.

Greensboro is served by one public K-12 public school, Greensboro Public School, with two campuses. There is one private K-12 school, Southern Academy.