Acton

Acton is a hamlet in Jefferson, Alabama. Acton is situated nearby to the hamlet Camp Horne, as well as near the neighborhood Westbrook Trace.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Summit.

The Summit

Commercial area

Photo: Hkeely, CC BY 4.0.

The Summit, which opened in October 1997, is a 1 million square foot upscale lifestyle center located at the intersection of U.S. Highway 280 and Interstate 459 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, between the suburbs of Mountain Brook and Vestavia Hills.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Inverness and Meadowbrook.

Inverness

Hamlet

Photo: halytech, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Inverness is a former census-designated place and now neighborhood within Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, United States. It derives from a Scottish city of the same name. Inverness is situated 2 miles southeast of Acton.

Meadowbrook

Village

Meadowbrook is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 9,688. It is part of the Birmingham metropolitan area. Meadowbrook is situated 3 miles southeast of Acton.

Vestavia Hills

Town

Photo: Stphelan, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Vestavia Hills, colloquially known simply as Vestavia, is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties, Alabama, United States. The population was 39,102 as of the 2020 census, and was estimated at 38,306 in 2025, making it is the third-largest city in Jefferson County, after Birmingham and Hoover, and making it is the fourteenth-largest city in Alabama. Vestavia Hills is situated 3½ miles northwest of Acton.

Acton

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Jefferson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

33.42678° or 33° 25′ 36″ north

Longitude

-86.73527° or 86° 44′ 7″ west

Elevation

486 feet (148 metres)

Open location code

865MC7G7+PV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 153531546

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4829537

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