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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Tuscaloosa

river in Alabama, first attested in Spanish as Tascaluza, from Choctaw (Muskogean) taska-losa, literally "warrior-black."

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Tuscaloosa, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 77906
Housing Units (2000): 34857
Land area (2000): 56.240755 sq. miles (145.662880 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 10.458586 sq. miles (27.087612 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 66.699341 sq. miles (172.750492 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77256
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.206540 N, 87.534607 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35401 35405 35406
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tuscaloosa, AL
Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 164875
Housing Units (2000): 71429
Land area (2000): 1324.370814 sq. miles (3430.104517 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 26.854888 sq. miles (69.553838 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1351.225702 sq. miles (3499.658355 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.235600 N, 87.511691 W
Headwords:
Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa, AL
Tuscaloosa County
Tuscaloosa County, AL
Wikipedia
Tuscaloosa (disambiguation)

Tuscaloosa is the name of two places in the United States of America:

  • Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  • Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

There is also:

  • USS Tuscaloosa (CA-37), U.S. Navy New Orleans-class heavy cruiser
  • USS Tuscaloosa (LST-1187), U.S. Navy Newport-class of tank landing ships (LST)

Persons:

  • Chief Tuskaloosa, a Native American leader

Usage examples of "tuscaloosa".

Winder, in charge of the Federal prisoners of war, who ordered me to take charge of a prison in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

As the scouts poured into the draft room, and stuffed their lower lips with chaw, a catcher with a body deemed by all of baseball to be unsuited to the game sat waiting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

The first-place essay, by a beefy, gap-toothed man named George Eagers, concerned the time he had a flat tire near Tuscaloosa and the one and only Bear Bryant had stopped to ask him if he needed some help, thus proving the Bear’s divinity.

They saved Tuscaloosa, Lake Charles, and College Station among others, but they also found that the Indian STOLs had minicannon.