Editing Intercourse, Alabama (section)

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States}}
{{Use American English|date=September 2024}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}
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|official_name            = Intercourse, Alabama
|settlement_type          = [[Unincorporated area|Unincorporated community]]
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|subdivision_name         = United States
|subdivision_name1        = [[Alabama]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Sumter County, Alabama|Sumter]]
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|timezone                 = [[Central Time Zone (North America)|Central (CST)]]
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|area_code                = [[Area codes 205 and 659|205, 659]]
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|blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] 151860
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'''Intercourse''' is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] located at a [[crossroads (junction)|crossroads]] in [[Sumter County, Alabama]], United States.<ref name="GNIS">{{Gnis|151860|Intercourse, Alabama}}</ref>  A post office called Intercourse was established in 1840, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1913.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=AL&county=Sumter&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Sumter County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=7 October 2014}}</ref> It is named for the traffic intersection of the town's crossroads (called "intercourse" at that time).<ref>{{cite book|last=Foscue|first=Virginia O.|title=Place Names in Alabama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PCQBBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA76|year=1989|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-0410-2|page=76}}</ref> Although a share of the residents want the [[place names considered unusual|unusual name]] changed to Siloam, state maps still identify the place as Intercourse.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JkogAAAAIBAJ&sjid=56UEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6985%2C1208659 | title=Unusual names have unusual origins | work=The Tuscaloosa News | date=September 4, 1990 | accessdate=3 May 2015 | pages=6A}}</ref>