Map of Nauvoo town, Alabama

Nauvoo is a town on the northwestern edge of Walker County, Alabama, United States, that extends slightly north into southwestern Winston. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town is 221, down from 284 in 2000. Camp McDowell, the official camp and conference center of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, is located here.

Nauvoo town overview:
Name:	Nauvoo town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Alabama
County:	Walker County, Winston County
Elevation:	568 ft (173 m)
Total Area:	0.99 sq mi (2.57 km²)
Land Area:	0.99 sq mi (2.56 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.01 km²)
Total Population:	185
Population Density:	187.06/sq mi (72.20/km²)
ZIP code:	35578
Area code:	205, 659
FIPS code:	0153400
GNISfeature ID:	0160219

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History

The town of Nauvoo was founded in 1888, during the construction of the Northern Alabama Railway, and was formerly a center of coal mining. The town grew out of isolated agricultural settlements on the Walker County-Winston County line, which had been known unofficially as Blackwell’s Crossing and Ingle Mills (or Ingle’s Mill) after prominent local landowners. Railroad construction drove the development of the town center on Joshua Blackwell’s property, but he declined to have the new town be named officially in his honor. The local resident Tom Carroll suggested the name “Nauvoo,” after Nauvoo, Illinois — a city founded by Mormon prophet Joseph Smith in 1839 and later the site of an Icarian colony settlement — reportedly “because he had admired the [Illinois] town… in his earlier travels through that state.” By 1891, the town was mentioned in the Winston Herald as “Nauvoo, a flourishing town with three stores and one steam gin doing good business.” Nauvoo incorporated in 1906.