Axis, Alabama

{{Use American English|date=September 2024}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Axis, Alabama |settlement_type = Unincorporated community Census-designated place |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_seal = |image_map = File:Mobile County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Axis Highlighted 0103508.svg |mapsize = 200px |map_caption = Location in Mobile County, Alabama  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Alabama |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Mobile  |established_date = |government_type = |leader_title = |leader_name =  |unit_pref = Imperial |area_footnotes = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021">{{cite web|title=2021 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2021_Gazetteer/2021_gaz_place_01.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=April 21, 2022}}</ref> |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = 9.08 |area_total_sq_mi = 3.50 |area_land_km2 = 9.05 |area_land_sq_mi = 3.50 |area_water_km2 = 0.03 |area_water_sq_mi = 0.01  |population_as_of = 2020 |population_total = 561 |population_footnotes = <ref name="Census 2020">{{Cite web| url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=&g=1600000US0103508&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1| title=Axis CDP, Alabama: 2020 DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau| access-date=April 21, 2022}}</ref> |population_density_km2 = 61.98 |population_density_sq_mi = 160.52  |timezone = Central (CST) |utc_offset = -6 |timezone_DST = CDT |utc_offset_DST = -5 |elevation_ft = 26 |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> |coordinates = {{coord|30|55|51|N|88|01|05|W|region:US-AL|display=inline}} |coordinates_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/>  |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 36505 |area_code = 251 |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 01-03508 |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 2628577<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2628577}}</ref> |footnotes = |website = }} [[File:Jerry Carl visits SSAB - May 2021 02.jpg|thumb|Congressman Jerry Carl visiting SSAB in Axis]] '''Axis''' is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.<ref name="GNIS">{{Gnis|116112|Axis, Alabama}}</ref> As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 561,<ref name="Census 2020"/> down from 757 at the 2010 census. It has a post office with the 36505 ZIP code. The community has one site listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, the Kirk House.<ref name="CURRLIST">{{cite web |title=Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage |url=https://archive.org/details/PropertiesOnTheAlabamaRegisterOfLandmarksHeritage |date=June 4, 2009 |work=Alabama Historical Commission |publisher=www.preserveala.org |access-date=July 21, 2009}}</ref>

==Geography== Axis is located in northeastern Mobile County. It is bordered to the south by the city of Creola. U.S. Route 43 runs through the west side of the community, leading south {{convert|17|mi}} to downtown Mobile and north {{Convert|11|mi}} to Mount Vernon.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Axis CDP has an area of {{convert|3.5|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|0.01|sqmi}}, or 0.29%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2021"/>

==Education== Mobile County Public School System operates public schools.<ref>"[https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st01_al/place/p0103508_axis/DC10BLK_P0103508_001.pdf 2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Axis CDP, AL]." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.</ref> Students are zoned to North Mobile County K-8 School, previously North Mobile County Middle School;<ref>"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/North%20Mobile%20Middle.pdf North Mobile Middle Attendance Zone]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." Mobile County Public School System. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.</ref><ref>"[http://northmobile.mcm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=LatestNews&ItemID=40701&ISrc=School&Itype=News Welcome to North Mobile County Middle School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716014233/http://northmobile.mcm.schoolinsites.com/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=LatestNews&ItemID=40701&ISrc=School&Itype=News |date=2011-07-16 }}." North Mobile County Middle School. Retrieved on October 22, 2010. "The North Mobile County Middle School serves students living outside the Saraland City Limits and includes students from Satsuma, Creola, Axis, and Prichard. We will be located at the current Lee Intermediate Building and will be located here until a new facility is completed on Salco Road."</ref> and Citronelle High School in Citronelle.<ref>"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Citronelle%20High%20School.pdf Citronelle High School Attendance Zone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725055213/http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Citronelle%20High%20School.pdf |date=2021-07-25 }}." Mobile County Public School System. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.</ref><ref name=Philipsoutofdistrict>Philips, Rena Havner. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2012/04/satsuma_sets_tuition_for_out-o.html Satsuma sets tuition for out-of-city students at $650]." AL.com. April 29, 2012. Retrieved on July 29, 2016. "Officials in Satsuma, which is forming its own school system in August, are hoping to attract residents of Creola and Axis." and "The Mobile County school district is converting North Mobile County Middle on Salco Road in Axis into a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus. But students in that area who now attend Satsuma High School are being officially zoned to Citronelle High School, 20 miles away."</ref>

On September 7, 2010, North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle.<ref>Phillips, Rena Havner. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2010/09/video_north_mobile_county_midd.html Video: North Mobile County Middle School opens its doors in Axis]." ''Mobile Press-Register''. Tuesday September 7, 2010. Retrieved on October 22, 2010. "North Mobile County Middle School students 6th grader Derrick Boykin, 12, and 7th grader Amanda Daniels, 12, walk down a sidewalk on the first day of classes at the school Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. The newly completed $14 million school was built to accommodate students displaced by Saraland's split from the Mobile County system. "</ref> North Mobile County middle had been built on a "16th section", a piece of land allotted to each school district under an Alabama law stating that for each sixteen portions of land in a county, the school district will take one portion of land. Some City of Satsuma residents disliked North Mobile County Middle's distance and remoteness from Satsuma, prompting them to call for a separate school district. The Mobile County government built the school outside of the Satsuma city limits so the city government would be unable to possess the school if it opted to secede.<ref>Havner, Rena. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2011/01/school_distance_key_issue_in_p.html School distance key issue in proposed Satsuma split from Mobile public schools]." AL.com. January 24, 2011. Retrieved on June 14, 2016.</ref>

Prior to the split of Satsuma from the Mobile County system, Axis was zoned to Satsuma High School. In 2011 Renee Busbee of the ''Mobile Press-Register'' said that residents of Axis may be rezoned to Blount, Citronelle, and/or Vigor high schools.<ref>Busbee, Renee. "[http://blog.al.com/live/2011/05/parents_upset_that_children_ma.html Parents upset that children may not be able to attend Satsuma High School]." ''Mobile Press-Register''. Saturday May 21, 2011. Retrieved on November 17, 2012.</ref>

==Viscose plant== {| class="wikitable" |+ Carbon disulfide emissions of Courtaulds' Axis viscose plant |- ! Year ! Emissions

|- ! 1952 | Plant began operations around this time |- ! 1986 | 30,000,000 pounds |- ! 1991 | 42,454,520 pounds into the air, 43,105 pounds into surface water, and 430,000 pounds into the land |- ! 1992 | 45,000,000 pounds into the air |- ! 1994 | 45,500,000 pounds |- ! 1997 | just under 40,000,000 pounds |}

Courtaulds manufactured viscose rayon in a plant near Axis from about 1952. The plant emitted carbon disulfide (CS2). In 1991, the EPA found the carbon disulfide emissions of the Axis plant to be more than double the total discharge of Alabama's nine other carbon-disulfide-emitting plants put together. The 1990 amendments to the United States' Clean Air Act required emissions reductions. In 1992, the plant recovered less than 10% of the carbon disulfide it used. In 1993–1997, the plant was upgraded in a manner that increased the reuse efficiency of carbon disulfide to 50-55%. The carbon-bed technology which had been used in the parent company's European operations for 30 years would have reduced emissions by 90%, but would not have improved revenue by decreasing carbon disulfide demand, so improved spinning machines were bought instead. No other efforts were made to reduce emissions. Courtaulds did not monitor carbon disulfide concentrations in its stacks or in air around the factory.<ref name=court>Supreme Court of Alabama. [https://caselaw.findlaw.com/al-supreme-court/1023084.html COURTAULDS FIBERS, INC. v. Horace L. LONG, Jr., et al. Horace L. Long, Jr., et al. v. Courtaulds Fibers, Inc.] 1971996 and 1972028. Decided: September 15, 2000</ref>

==Demographics== {{US Census population |align = left |2010= 757 |2020= 561 |footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref> }}

Axis was listed as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.<ref>{{Cite web|first= |last= |authorlink= |title= 2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Alabama |publisher=United States Census Bureau|date= 2010|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-2.pdf |accessdate=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121211347/https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-2.pdf| archive-date=January 21, 2022}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" |+'''Axis CDP, Alabama – Racial and ethnic composition''' {{nobold|''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.''}} !Race / Ethnicity (''NH = Non-Hispanic'') !Pop 2010<ref name=2010CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Axis CDP, Alabama|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0103508&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=United States Census Bureau |access-date= }}</ref> !style="background-color: #ffffb3;" |Pop 2020<ref name=2020CensusP2>{{Cite web|title=P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Axis CDP, Alabama|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US0103508&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=United States Census Bureau |access-date= }}</ref> !% 2010 !style="background-color: #ffffb3;" |% 2020 |- |White alone (NH) |500 |style='background: #ffffe6; |327 |66.05% |style='background: #ffffe6; |58.29% |- |Black or African American alone (NH) |204 |style='background: #ffffe6; |190 |26.95% |style='background: #ffffe6; |33.87% |- |Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH) |24 |style='background: #ffffe6; |24 |3.17% |style='background: #ffffe6; |4.28% |- |Asian alone (NH) |1 |style='background: #ffffe6; |1 |0.13% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.18% |- |Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander alone (NH) |1 |style='background: #ffffe6; |0 |0.13% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00% |- |Other race alone (NH) |0 |style='background: #ffffe6; |2 |0.00% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.36% |- |Mixed race or Multiracial (NH) |20 |style='background: #ffffe6; |13 |2.64% |style='background: #ffffe6; |2.32% |- |Hispanic or Latino (any race) |7 |style='background: #ffffe6; |4 |0.92% |style='background: #ffffe6; |0.71% |- |'''Total''' |'''757''' |style='background: #ffffe6; |'''561 ''' |'''100.00%''' |style='background: #ffffe6; |'''100.00%''' |}

===2010 census=== As of the 2010 census, Axis had a population of 757.<ref name="GR8">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=May 14, 2011 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> The racial and ethnic makeup of the population was 66.8% white, 26.9% black or African American, 3.2% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.1% from some other race, 2.6% from two or more races and 0.9% Hispanic or Latino from any race.<ref>2010 population by race or Hispanic or Latino origin by place in Alabama from the US Census</ref> {{clear left}}

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==External links== {{Portal|Alabama}} *[http://northmobile.mcm.schoolinsites.com North Mobile County K-8 School]

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States}}

Category:Census-designated places in Alabama Category:Census-designated places in Mobile County, Alabama Category:Unincorporated communities in Mobile County, Alabama Category:Unincorporated communities in Alabama