What is Southern Company's current founding date?

November 9, 1945, dated November 9, 1945, from a primary source (sec.gov). The record asserts this claim as of November 12, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.95).

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Southern Company founding date

As of November 12, 2026, Southern Company's founding date on the AsOf record is November 9, 1945, dated November 9, 1945, from a primary source (sec.gov).

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value	valid fromThe day the value took effect, not the day it was published. A period figure (a year's revenue) is dated at the period's end.More in About →	valid to	confidenceHow well the sources support the value, from 0 to 1. A single primary source is asserted from 0.7; nothing below 0.5 is asserted; a dead or disagreeing source lowers it.More in About →	sourcesPrimary: the entity's own filing, feed or site. Secondary: a publisher reporting it. Each claim links every source it has, with the passage that states the value where one was read.More in About →
November 9, 1945: founding date 1945-11-09 from 1945-11-09, claim clm_11A9A2D4448A and its sources to present · sec.gov	1945-11-09	present	0.95	sec.gov

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What is Southern Company's current founding date?: November 9, 1945, dated November 9, 1945, from a primary source (sec.gov). The record asserts this claim as of November 12, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.95).

Answered from the rows above, as of November 12, 2026.

Cite Southern Company founding date

Each form names the value, its as-of date (1945-11-09), the day you read it (2026-11-12), the claim's stable URL and id and its primary source. The URL never changes: a superseded claim stays at the same address.

Plain text

AsOf. "Southern Company founded: 1945-11-09", as of 1945-11-09. Claim clm_11A9A2D4448A, https://asof.is/claim/clm_11A9A2D4448A, accessed 2026-11-12. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212206000153/g99802e10vk.htm.

APA

AsOf. (1945). Southern Company founded: 1945-11-09 (as of 1945-11-09) [Record clm_11A9A2D4448A]. Retrieved November 12, 2026, from https://asof.is/claim/clm_11A9A2D4448A (source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212206000153/g99802e10vk.htm)

BibTeX

@misc{asof_clm_11A9A2D4448A,
  author = {AsOf},
  title = {Southern Company founded: 1945-11-09},
  year = {1945},
  howpublished = {\url{https://asof.is/claim/clm_11A9A2D4448A}},
  note = {Claim clm\_11A9A2D4448A, as of 1945-11-09; source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/92122/000009212206000153/g99802e10vk.htm},
  urldate = {2026-11-12}
}

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