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Welcome
to the City of Opp, Alabama The City of Opportunity |
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Location Opp, Alabama is located in south central Alabama on highway 331 just about an hour's drive from the beautiful sugar-white beaches on the Gulf .  Coast.
Opp has great schools, excellent healthcare, reasonable real estate, and a progressive city government. Opp has many of the desirable features of larger cities, but is small enough to make you want to raise your kids here. "The drive down 331 during Christmas is truly a delight," says one visitor to Opp. "The community pulls together and decorates the city into something that is really remarkable." 
The city keeps and eye on the past as it looks to the future. Downtown Opp is a registered National Historic District. Opp Commercial Historic District (added 2001 - District - #01001164) Roughly bounded by Covington Ave., Hart, Main, Whaley and College Sts., Opp Historic Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Architectural Style: Classical Revival, Colonial Revival Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning And Development, Transportation, Commerce Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1925-1949, 1950-1974 Owner: Private , Local Gov't , Federal Historic Function: Agriculture/Subsistence, Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government, Religion Historic Sub-function: Business, City Hall, Post Office, Processing, Religious Structure, Single Dwelling2, Storage Current Function: Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government, Religion, Vacant/Not In Use Current Sub-function: Business, City Hall, Department Store, Multiple Dwelling, Religious Structure, Single Dwelling2, Warehouse Shepard, William T., House (added 1973 - Building - #73000339) Poley Rd., Opp Historic Significance: Event Area of Significance: Social History Period of Significance: 1900-1924 Owner: Private Historic Function: Domestic Historic Sub-function: Single Dwelling2 Other Facts Latitude: 31:16:55 Longitude: 86:15:21 Population 6,607 Population within 30 miles: 113160 Number of Households within County: 16036 Climate Mean Temperatures Precipitation Annual: 65°F January: 48°F July: 81°F Annual Average: 60in. Altitude: 335ft. Atlanta: 244 Birmingham: 178 Huntsville: 279 Jacksonville, FL: 320 Memphis: 432 Mobile: 130 Montgomery: 93 Nashville: 371 New Orleans: 285 Tampa: 412 |
