Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District, in Jefferson County, Alabama, including parts of Birmingham and Mountain Brook, is a 333 acres (135 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing included 392 contributing buildings and three contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 189 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Crest and Argyle and Altamont, Country Club, Salisbury, and Lanark Rds., Birmingham (also in Mountain Brook), 35213
When was it listed? October 1985
Category. district
Census division. Birmingham
National Register reference number. 85002719 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 724 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/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-6
25 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	2386 CR 65, AL
2 June 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	350 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 45 ( N OF 27), AL
15 June 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200615-3
30 May 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NORMAN DRIVE, AL
27 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20120427-002
21 April 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 1996	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District: 11 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 plants, 2 producers. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Birmingham Plant	Vermiculite	Past Producer
East Thomas Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wade Sand & Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Green Spring Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Hammond Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Hammond, Dago, Hendona, and Valleyview Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Hematite
Helen Bess Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Irondale Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Kewanaw Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Republic Steel/ Birmingham, Ala.	Iron	Plant

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rhodes Park	0.3 miles	1982
Avalon	0.3 miles	1985
Country Club Historic District	0.4 miles	2003
Highland Avenue Historic District	0.5 miles	1977
Enslen House	0.5 miles	1975
Redmont Garden Apartments	0.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002719 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 189 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.