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Forkland is an incorporated town in southern Greene County, in the Black Belt region of west-central Alabama.

Forkland takes its name from its position in the 'fork' between two rivers: the Tombigbee River runs about two miles to its west and the Black Warrior River about four miles to its east, and the two rivers join about nine miles south of town near Demopolis.

White settlers were arriving in the Forkland area as early as 1818, drawn by the rich alluvial soils between the rivers, and the area developed into prime cotton plantation country.

Despite its early settlement, Forkland did not incorporate as a town until 1974.

Forkland's one site on the National Register of Historic Places is St. John's-in-the-Prairie Episcopal Church, built in 1859, and two more listed plantation sites, Rosemount and Thornhill, stand nearby.

Rosemount Plantation, a massive plantation house completed in 1832 by Williamson Allen Glover, lies about two miles northwest of Forkland.

Photographers from the Historic American Buildings Survey documented Forkland's plantation-era houses, including the Perrin-Willis House and the Virginia Glover House, in 1933.

The 2020 census counted 445 people in Forkland, a sharp drop of about 31 percent from the 649 residents counted in 2010.

At the 2000 census, Forkland had 629 residents living in 245 households, with 309 housing units in the town.

African Americans made up about 88 percent of Forkland's population in the 2020 census.