Jefferson County, Alabama, USA

Jefferson County is in north-central Alabama at the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains, with Birmingham as its county seat. Created in 1819, the county became a center of Alabama’s iron, steel and coal industries. The Black Warrior and Cahaba river systems drain its landscape of ridges and valleys. Birmingham was a major setting of the civil rights movement, including the 1963 Birmingham campaign. Medical services, banking and industry are prominent parts of the county’s economy.