Pike County, Alabama

Pike County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,899. The county seat is Troy. The name is in honor of General Zebulon Pike, of New Jersey, an explorer who led an expedition to southern Colorado and discovered Pikes Peak in 1806.

Pike County was one of the oldest in the state, founded on December 17, 1821.