Homewood
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Photo: Sweetmoose6, Public domain.
Photo: Sweetmoose6, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 26,400 residents
- Description: city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “Homewood, AL” and “Homewood, Alabama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vulcan and Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center.
Vulcan
The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world, and is the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, United States, reflecting its roots in the iron and steel industry.
Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center
Theater building
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
The Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center is a performing arts facility located on the campus of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It hosts over 250,000 people for more than 300 diverse events annually.
Ramsay High School
School
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Ramsay High School is a four-year magnet high school in Birmingham, Alabama. It is one of seven high schools in the Birmingham City School System and one of three International Baccalaureate schools in the Birmingham metropolitan area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vestavia Hills and Elyton.
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 in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is a suburb of Birmingham and it is made up of Vestavia, Liberty Park, and Cahaba Heights.
Elyton
Hamlet
Elyton, Alabama, was the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama from 1821 to 1873. It was the county's second seat, after Carrollsville. In 1873 the courthouse was moved to Birmingham. Elyton is situated 2½ miles northwest of Homewood.
Homewood
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Jefferson, Metropolitan Alabama, Alabama, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.4737° or 33° 28′ 25″ northLongitude
-86.8085° or 86° 48′ 30″ westPopulation
26,400Elevation
666 feet (203 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HWAOpen location code
865MF5FR+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 153782356OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Homewood” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوموود”
- Basque: “Homewood”
- Catalan: “Homewood”
- Cebuano: “Homewood”
- Central Kurdish: “ھۆموود، ئەلاباما”
- Central Kurdish: “ھۆموود”
- Chechen: “Хомвуд”
- Chinese: “Homewood”
- Chinese: “霍姆伍德”
- Czech: “Homewood”
- Danish: “Homewood”
- Dutch: “Homewood”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوموود”
- French: “Homewood”
- German: “Homewood”
- Gilaki: “هؤموۊد”
- Haitian: “Homewood”
- Ido: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Ido: “Homewood”
- Indonesian: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Indonesian: “Homewood”
- Irish: “Homewood”
- Italian: “Homewood”
- Japanese: “ホームウッド”
- Korean: “홈우드”
- Ladin: “Homewood”
- Malagasy: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Malagasy: “Homewood”
- Mazanderani: “هوموود”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Homewood”
- Newari: “होमवूड (अलाबामा)”
- Newari: “होमवूड, अलाबामा”
- Newari: “होमवूड”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Homewood”
- Norwegian: “Homewood”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Homewood”
- Persian: “هوموود، آلاباما”
- Persian: “هوموود، الاباما”
- Persian: “هوموود”
- Polish: “Homewood”
- Portuguese: “Homewood”
- Russian: “Хомвуд”
- Serbian: “Homewood”
- Serbian: “Хомвуд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Homewood”
- Slovak: “Homewood”
- South Azerbaijani: “هوموود، آلاباما”
- Spanish: “Homewood (Alabama)”
- Spanish: “Homewood”
- Swedish: “Homewood”
- Talysh: “Homvud”
- Tatar: “Гоумвуд”
- Turkish: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Turkish: “Homewood”
- Ukrainian: “Гоумвуд”
- Uzbek: “Homewood”
- Vietnamese: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Vietnamese: “Homewood”
- Volapük: “Homewood”
- Waray (Philippines): “Homewood, Alabama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Homewood”
- Welsh: “Homewood, Alabama”
- Welsh: “Homewood”
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