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Brent is a city in Bibb County in central Alabama, set in the Cahaba River valley directly across the river from Centreville, the county seat.

Brent was founded in 1898 along the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and named for Brent Armstrong, the railroad engineer who had overseen construction of the Cahaba River bridge; Armstrong bought the first lot sold in the new townsite for $25 and became its first postmaster.

By 1903 Brent had grown enough to warrant its own railroad station, and the city incorporated in January 1913, a year after its first bank was established.

Brent is the largest city in Bibb County, and its motto is "Proven by Tempest," a nod to its history of surviving destructive tornadoes.

On May 27, 1973, an F4 tornado nearly wiped Brent off the map, destroying about 90 percent of the buildings in the city and killing five people; the storm's 139-mile path remains the longest tornado track in Alabama history.

Brent rebuilt after 1973, but on March 25, 2021, an EF3 tornado struck Brent and neighboring Centreville again and destroyed the Bibb County Airport.

The 2020 census counted 2,972 residents in Brent living in 1,109 households, with a median age of 39.9 years.

The Alabama Department of Corrections operates the Bibb Correctional Facility in Brent, and inmates counted there helped lift the city's 2010 census population to 4,947 before the count dropped in 2020.

U.S. Route 82 passes through the northern part of Brent, leading northwest about 32 miles to Tuscaloosa and southeast about 73 miles to Montgomery.

Brent is home to Miller's Pottery, a nationally renowned studio pottery rooted in Bibb County's folk-pottery tradition.