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East Birmingham, Alabama

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35212. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham North quadrangle.

East Birmingham within Jefferson County

On record in East Birmingham

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 printed sheets

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.

Fires near this place

41 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of East Birmingham between 1993 and 2019, burning about 665 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-8
24 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150924-001
19 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission4309 SUNFLOWER STREET, AL
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission2386 CR 65, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of East Birmingham: 8 past producers, 3 plants, 3 unknowns, 3 producers. 6 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Birmingham PlantVermiculitePast Producer
Wade Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Citadel Cement OperationStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Dolcito QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
East Thomas Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hammond MineIronPast Producer
Hammond, Dago, Hendona, and Valleyview MinesIronPast ProducerHematite
Helen Bess MineIronPast Producer
Irondale MineIronPast Producer
Kewanaw MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Birmingham in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEast Birmingham-Several trees were downed in the Eastlake area, including along 66th St S.
May 2017Flash FloodEast Birmingham-Several water rescues performed by the Birmingham Fire Department along 1st Avenue North. Roadways flooded along Village Creek at Avenue W and Five Mile Creek at Ketona.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

Nearest settlements

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

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vanderbilt0.5 miles30
Avon Park0.6 miles30
Kingston0.8 miles30
Douglasville1.1 miles30
Eastwood1.1 miles30
Norwood1.2 miles30
Bendale1.2 miles30
Vulcan City1.3 miles30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117736. 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.