Birmingham, Alabama

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Jefferson County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 158 shown

• Number One Furnace, Sloss Blast Furnace SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972
• Sixteenth Street Baptist ChurchNational Historic Landmark · listed 1980
• Age-Herald Buildinglisted 1984
• Agee Houselisted 1986
• Alabama Penny Savings Banklisted 1980
• Alabama Theatrelisted 1979
• Anderson Place Historic Districtlisted 1986
• Anderson Place Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1991
• Arlingtonlisted 1970
• Arlington Parklisted 1995
• Automotive Historic Districtlisted 1991
• Avalonlisted 1985

Every listing in Jefferson County

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 113 shown

• A. M. Brown House, 310 Fourth Terrace, Birminghamfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Alabama Theatre, 1811 Third Avenue North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 126 photographs
• American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1501 Thirty-first Avenue, North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Cupola Area, 1501 Thirty-first Avenue North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Diverter Area, 1501 Thirty-first Avenue North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Mixer Building, 1501 Thirty-first Avenue North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Service Building, 1501 Thirty-first Avenue North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Arlington Place, 331 Cotton Avenue, Southwest, Birminghamfederal building survey, 54 photographs
• Automotive District, Twenty-first Street & Third Avenue South, Birminghamfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Bayview Community, Off Birmingport Road (State Highway 269), Birminghamfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Benjamin Pinckney Worthington House, Sixth Avenue South, Birminghamfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• Bethel Baptist Church, 3233 29th Avenue North, Birminghamfederal building survey, 14 photographs

Every surveyed structure in Jefferson County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1975 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Birmingham between 1993 and 2019, burning about 774 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Douglasville
• Fairfield
• Five Points South
• Magnolia Heights
• Norwood
• Vanderbilt

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Birmingham: 11 past producers, 4 producers, 4 unknowns, 3 plants. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Birmingham in 84 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 30 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 15 flash flood, 5 lightning. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

5 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 11,180 issues, 167,576 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.

Front pages of the local paper, read from the Library of Congress scans: 20 issues spread across its run from 1894 to 1925, 75,449 words in total. Each is reproduced on its own page, exactly as the recogniser returned it.

These pages read less well than anything else here, and the number is worth stating: about three words in four come through cleanly, against nine in ten for the building records. An 1896 broadsheet sets eight-point type in seven columns on microfilm, which is the hardest thing in this archive to read by machine. We tested our own recognisers against the Library's and they were not better, so the Library's text is what appears, with the wholly unreadable columns removed. Read it as a guide to what the paper covered, and follow the link to the scan before quoting anything.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 158174. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.