Tibbie is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

and

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Washington County,

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, United States. Its population was 41 as of the 2010 census. The Red Alabama Blackmouth Cur is thought to have originated in the area around Tibbie in the 1940s.

Demographics

History

The name Tibbie comes from a shortened form of the

Choctaw The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, originally based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choct ...

word "oakibbeha". Oakibbeha means "blocks of ice therein," with ''okti'' meaning "ice" and the plural form ''abeha'' meaning "to be in". A post office first began operations under the name Tibbie in 1910.

References

Census-designated places in Washington County, Alabama Census-designated places in Alabama Alabama placenames of Native American origin {{WashingtonCountyAL-geo-stub