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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 26,000 residents
- Description: suburb city of Birmingham, located in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “Bessemer, AL” and “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Postal codes: 35020-35023
- Neighbors: Birmingham
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.
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.
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. 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. Brighton is situated 2½ miles north of Bessemer.
Lipscomb
Village
Lipscomb is a city in western 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. 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
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Latitude
33.4018° or 33° 24′ 6″ northLongitude
-86.9544° or 86° 57′ 16″ westPopulation
26,000Elevation
509 feet (155 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BMVOpen location code
865MC22W+P6OpenStreetMap ID
node 153429660OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Bessemer” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيسمير”
- Basque: “Bessemer”
- Catalan: “Bessemer”
- Cebuano: “Bessemer”
- Chechen: “Бессемер”
- Chinese: “Bessemer”
- Chinese: “貝瑟默”
- Chinese: “贝瑟默”
- Czech: “Bessemer”
- Danish: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- 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: “Bessemer”
- Serbian: “Бесемер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bessemer”
- Silesian: “Bessemer”
- Slovak: “Bessemer”
- Slovenian: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Slovenian: “Bessemer”
- South Azerbaijani: “بسمر”
- Spanish: “Bessemer (Alabama)”
- Spanish: “Bessemer”
- Swedish: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Swedish: “Bessemer”
- Tagalog: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Tagalog: “Bessemer”
- Tatar: “Бессемер”
- Turkish: “Bessemer, Alabama”
- Turkish: “Bessemer”
- Ukrainian: “Бессемер”
- 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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