Lipscomb
Lipscomb is a city in south central Jefferson County, Alabama. It is part of the Birmingham, Alabama, metropolitan area. At the 2020 census, the population was 2,086. It does not have its own U.S. Post Office or ZIP code, instead sharing the Bessemer ZIP code.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 2,090 residents
- Description: human settlement in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States of America
- Also known as: “Lipscomb, AL”, “Lipscomb, Alabama”, and “Wheeling”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Southern Railway Terminal Station and Sloss Mines.
Southern Railway Terminal Station
Museum
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
The Bessemer Hall of History is a museum located in, and devoted to the history of, the city of Bessemer, Alabama. The museum is housed in the former Alabama Great Southern Railroad depot in downtown Bessemer. Southern Railway Terminal Station is situated 2 miles southwest of Lipscomb.
Sloss Mines
Mine
The Sloss Mines are a group of mines in southwestern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. They were established by the Sloss Iron and Steel Company and its successor, the Sloss-Sheffield Iron and Steel Company, at the southern end of Red Mountain. Sloss Mines is situated 2 miles south of Lipscomb.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brighton and Wenonah.
Brighton
Village
Brighton is a city near Birmingham, Alabama, United States and located just east of Hueytown. At the 2020 census, the population was 2,337. It is part of the Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Statistical Area, which in 2010 had a population of about 1,128,047, approximately one-quarter of Alabama's population.
Wenonah
Hamlet
The Wenonah community was the name of one of a series of Red Mountain ore mining camps for employees of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. Wenonah is situated 2 miles northeast of Lipscomb.
Bessemer
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
Bessemer is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and a southwestern suburb of Birmingham. The population was 26,019 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 25,079 in 2024.
Lipscomb
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.42567° or 33° 25′ 32″ northLongitude
-86.92666° or 86° 55′ 36″ westPopulation
2,090Elevation
541 feet (165 metres)United Nations Location Code
US L7POpen location code
865MC3GF+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 153676375OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lipscomb” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليبسكومب (ألاباما)”
- Arabic: “ليبسكومب، ألاباما”
- Arabic: “ليبسكومب”
- Basque: “Lipscomb”
- Catalan: “Lipscomb”
- Cebuano: “Lipscomb”
- Central Kurdish: “لیپسکۆم، ئەلاباما”
- Chechen: “Липском”
- Chinese: “Lipscomb”
- Chinese: “利普斯科姆”
- Czech: “Lipscomb”
- Danish: “Lipscomb”
- Dutch: “Lipscomb”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليبسكومب”
- French: “Lipscomb”
- German: “Lipscomb”
- Gilaki: “لیپسکام”
- Greek: “Λίπσκομπ”
- Haitian: “Lipscomb”
- Ido: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Ido: “Lipscomb”
- Indonesian: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Indonesian: “Lipscomb”
- Irish: “Lipscomb”
- Italian: “Lipscomb”
- Japanese: “リプスコーム”
- Ladin: “Lipscomb”
- Malagasy: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Malagasy: “Lipscomb”
- Mazanderani: “لیپسکم”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lipscomb”
- Newari: “लिप्स्कोम्ब (अलाबामा)”
- Newari: “लिप्स्कोम्ब, अलाबामा”
- Newari: “लिप्स्कोम्ब”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lipscomb”
- Norwegian: “Lipscomb”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lipscomb”
- Persian: “لیپسکم، آلاباما”
- Persian: “لیپسکم”
- Persian: “لیپسکمب، الاباما”
- Persian: “لیپسکمب”
- Polish: “Lipscomb”
- Portuguese: “Lipscomb”
- Serbian: “Lipscomb”
- Serbian: “Липском”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lipscomb”
- Slovak: “Lipscomb”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیپسکم، آلاباما”
- Spanish: “Lipscomb”
- Swedish: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Swedish: “Lipscomb”
- Tatar: “Липском”
- Ukrainian: “Ліпском”
- Ukrainian: “Ліпскомб”
- Uzbek: “Lipscomb”
- Vietnamese: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Vietnamese: “Lipscomb”
- Volapük: “Lipscomb”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lipscomb”
- Welsh: “Lipscomb, Alabama”
- Welsh: “Lipscomb”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lipscomb City Hall and Lipscomb Church of God On Avenue K.
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