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Sulligent is an incorporated town in Lamar County in northwestern Alabama, near the Mississippi state line.

The town was first called Elliott for the chief engineer of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, then renamed a month later Sulligent, a portmanteau honoring railroad superintendent Sullivan and passenger agent Sargeant.

Sulligent was incorporated on February 12, 1897, after the railroad's arrival in 1887 spurred its growth as a cotton-shipping center for northern Lamar County.

In the mid-1890s more than 2,500 bales of cotton were ginned in Sulligent each year, and the Sulligent Cotton Oil Company was once known as the largest cotton gin under one roof.

The 2020 census counted 1,879 residents in Sulligent, in 884 households, down slightly from 1,927 in 2010; its record high was 2,151 in 2000, when it was again the largest community in Lamar County.

From 1910 to 1950 and again in 2000, Sulligent was the largest community in Lamar County before losing that distinction to the county seat of Vernon.

Sulligent is home to the Greer Bankhead House (built around 1850), Lamar County's only structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the birthplace of members of the Bankhead political family.

The Moore-Hill House, built in 1834, is believed to be the oldest building in Lamar County.

U.S. Route 278 passes through Sulligent and intersects State Route 17 at the center of town, and the BNSF Railway still provides rail service on an east-west line.

Sulligent covers about 7.8 square miles, all land, at an elevation of about 394 feet.