Bessemer
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.
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.- Type: Town with 26,000 residents
- Description: suburb city of Birmingham, located in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “Bessemer (Alabama)”, “Bessemer, AL”, and “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Postal codes: 35020-35023
- Neighbors: Birmingham
Places of Interest
Highlights: Southern Railway Terminal Station and Canaan Baptist Church.
Southern Railway Terminal Station
Museum
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.Canaan Baptist Church
Church
Sloss Mines
Mine
The Sloss Mines are a group of mines in southwestern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brighton and Lipscomb.
Brighton
Village
Brighton is a city near Birmingham, Alabama, United States and located just east of Hueytown. Brighton is situated 2½ miles north of Bessemer.
Lipscomb
Village
Lipscomb is a city in south central Jefferson County, Alabama. Lipscomb is situated 2½ miles northeast of Bessemer.
Bessemer
- Categories: city in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Metropolitan Alabama, Alabama, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.4018° or 33° 24′ 6″ north
Longitude
-86.9544° or 86° 57′ 16″ west
Population
26,000
Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US BMV
Open location code
865MC22W+P6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bessemer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيسمير”
- Asturian: “Bessemer”
- Basque: “Bessemer”
- Catalan: “Bessemer”
- Cebuano: “Bessemer”
- Chechen: “Бессемер”
- Chinese: “貝瑟默”
- Chinese: “贝瑟默”
- Czech: “Bessemer”
- Dagbani: “Bessemer”
- Danish: “Bessemer”
- Dutch: “Bessemer”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بيسمير”
- French: “Bessemer”
- German: “Bessemer”
- Gilaki: “بسمر”
- Greek: “Μπέσεμερ”
- Haitian: “Bessemer”
- Hebrew: “בסמר”
- Hungarian: “Bessemer”
- Ido: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Ido: “Bessemer”
- Indonesian: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Indonesian: “Bessemer”
- Irish: “Bessemer”
- Italian: “Bessemer”
- Japanese: “ベッセマー”
- Korean: “베서머”
- Ladin: “Bessemer”
- Malagasy: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Malagasy: “Bessemer”
- Mazanderani: “بسمر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bessemer”
- Newari: “बेस्सेमर, अलाबामा”
- Newari: “बेस्सेमर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bessemer”
- Norwegian: “Bessemer”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bessemer”
- Persian: “بسمر”
- Polish: “Bessemer”
- Portuguese: “Bessemer”
- Russian: “Бессемер”
- Serbian: “Бесемер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bessemer”
- Silesian: “Bessemer”
- Slovak: “Bessemer”
- Slovenian: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Slovenian: “Bessemer”
- South Azerbaijani: “بسمر”
- Spanish: “Bessemer”
- Swedish: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Swedish: “Bessemer”
- Tagalog: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Tagalog: “Bessemer”
- Tatar: “Бессемер”
- Turkish: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Turkish: “Bessemer”
- Ukrainian: “Бессемер”
- Urdu: “بیسیمر، الاباما”
- Uzbek: “Bessemer”
- Vietnamese: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Vietnamese: “Bessemer”
- Volapük: “Bessemer”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bessemer”
- Welsh: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Welsh: “Bessemer”
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