Triana, Alabama

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Triana, Alabama
settlement_type = Town


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map_caption = Location in Madison County and the state of Alabama


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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name = United States
subdivision_name1 = Alabama
subdivision_name2 = Madison
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area_total_km2 = 3.3
area_total_sq_mi = 1.3
area_land_km2 = 3.3
area_land_sq_mi = 1.3
area_water_km2 = 0
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elevation_ft = 623
elevation_m = 190
population_as_of = 2000
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population_total = 458
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population_density_km2 = 138.8
population_density_sq_mi = 352.3
timezone = Central (CST)
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latd = 34 |latm = 35 |lats = 15 |latNS = N
longd = 86 |longm = 44 |longs = 11 |longEW = W
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postal_code_type = ZIP code
postal_code = 35758
area_code = 256
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blank_info = 01-76824
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Triana is a town located on the southern county line of Madison County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 458.

About Triana

Triana has a full service city government, with a mayor and five town council members. The Triana Police Department consists of only two police officers. One of which is also the Chief of Police, Christian Mardis. Triana also has a volunteer fire department. Triana school students go to [http://www.madisoncity.k12.al.us Madison City Schools] . There is also a small branch of the Huntsville Madison County Public Library. Electricity and water are provided by [http://www.hsvutil.org/ Huntsville Utilities] .

Triana was part of the Indian Nation land cessions. It had been a settled community for many thousands of years prior the Treaties. People often find artifacts of this early settlement including pottery, arrow heads and various Native American tools in the area. The Toney members of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, descended from the Toney family that pioneered Triana, Alabama. The mixed-race families who formed the older settlement population were part Chickasaw, Cherokee and Powhatan Indian, Black and White American. The Toney-Powhatan Indian sacred burial ground circa 1800, is located on property developed by Powhatan Indians, and now called Redstone Arsenal and Triana, Alabama. Harris Toney a Black American Indian, fought for Alabama during the Civil War and is a Southern Cross of Honor Recipient.The Toney family is the oldest documented political dynasty in Alabama, Marvalene Freeman the Mayor of the Town of Triana, is a linear descendent of Harris Toney the founder of Toney and Triana, Alabama. Harris Toney pioneered and lobbied for the Indian Creek waterway or Canal in 1819. The only preserved section of the Historic Indian Creek Canal is located in the Town of Triana.

Geography

Triana is located at coor dms|34|35|15|N|86|44|11|W|city (34.587456, -86.736251)GR|1.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.3 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the censusGR|2 of 2000, there were 458 people, 162 households, and 116 families residing in the town. The population density was 360.4 people per square mile (139.2/km²). There were 176 housing units at an average density of 138.5/sq mi (53.5/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 11.35% White, 86.46% Black or African American, 1.09% Native American, 0.44% Asian, and 0.66% from two or more races. 0.22% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 162 households out of which 38.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.2% were married couples living together, 34.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.8% were non-families. 26.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.44.

In the town the population was spread out with 33.0% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 29.5% from 25 to 44, 19.2% from 45 to 64, and 8.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 31 years. For every 100 females there were 92.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.5 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $26,250, and the median income for a family was $30,750. Males had a median income of $26,875 versus $16,538 for females. The per capita income for the town was $13,012. About 27.3% of families and 27.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 44.6% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over.

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