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Mountain Brook, 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 35213. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham North quadrangle. 22,461 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Mountain Brook within Jefferson County

On record in Mountain Brook

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 3 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Mountain Brook grew from 20,413 to 22,461 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201020,413
202022,461+2,048 (+10%)

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

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Brook between 1993 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-6
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission2386 CR 65, AL
22 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 6 & CR 81, AL
19 July 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160608-5
2 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use350 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 45 ( N OF 27), AL
15 June 2020Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200615-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Brook: 8 past producers, 3 plants, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Green Spring MineIronPast Producer
Hammond MineIronPast Producer
Hammond, Dago, Hendona, and Valleyview MinesIronPast ProducerHematite
Helen Bess MineIronPast Producer
Irondale MineIronPast Producer
Kewanaw MineIronPast Producer
Republic Steel/ Birmingham, Ala.IronPlant
So. Electric Steel/Birmingham, Ala.IronPlant
U S Steel/ Birmingham, Ala.IronPlant

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Brook in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook1 hurtSeveral trees uprooted along Cliff Road in the city limits of Birmingham. One large tree fell on a home, producing significant damage to the home and minor injuries to one occupant.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook$150,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook$10,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook$5,000Several trees were blown down on Altamont Road in Birmingham and on South View Drive in Vestavia Hills.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook-Power lines were downed near the intersection of Old Leeds Rd and Cherokee Rd.
June 2020HailMountain Brook-Dime to quarter size hail in the city of Mountain Brook.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook-One tree was uprooted and fell onto two cars in Mountain Brook.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindMountain Brook-Several trees and power lines were reported down across the city of Mountain Brook.
June 2001HailMountain Brook-Nickel size hail was reported near Brookwood Mall.
June 2001HailMountain Brook-Dime size hail was observed near Fire Station #2 on Overton Road.
February 2011HailMountain Brook-no account filed

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
Crestline Heights0.4 miles30
Glencoe0.6 miles30
Euclid Estates0.8 miles30
Altamont Park0.9 miles30
Bentley Hills1.0 miles30
Redmont Park1.2 miles30
Forest Park1.2 miles30
Mountaindale1.3 miles30

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Mountain BrookAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79814The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123503. 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.