Huntsville Area
THE HUNTSVILLE AREA
ABOUT HUNTSVILLE AND MADISON COUNTY
The Huntsville & Madison County Area On September 30, 1836, the First General Assembly created Madison County out of territory taken from Washington County. Madison County became
the thirty-sixth county created by the General Assembly and was named for President James Madison.
Madison County is in the second tier of counties from the northern and western boundaries of the state, between Benton and Washington on the west,
and Carroll and Newton on the east. Carroll County forms the northern boundary and Franklin and Johnson counties form the southern.
The thirty-sixth parallel crosses the county approximately seven miles south of Huntsville.
The length of the county from north to south is thirty-seven miles.
It is twelve miles wide on the northern boundary and twenty-five miles wide on the southern boundary. The total area of the county is 837 square miles.
 Huntsville and Madison County is listed by the OMB and the U.S Census as part of the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers metro area as over 1/3 of the residents
of the county work in either Washington or Benton counties. Huntsville is the county seat of Madison County.
The latitude of Huntsville is 36°5'23"N and the longitude is 93°44'6"W. It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is 1,519 feet.
The population of Huntsville in 2000 was 1,931. The estimated population, in 2003, was 1,992 and in 2006 2,358.
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