Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Hueytown, AL

Hueytown is an incorporated city in western Jefferson County, Alabama, part of the Birmingham metropolitan area.

The city is named for the Huey family: twin brothers Jesse and Samuel Huey bought roughly 1,200 acres from the Mortimer Jordan plantation estate in the late 1860s, and the Hueytown post office was established in 1873 at Samuel Huey's request.

Hueytown was incorporated as a city on December 3, 1959, after residents organized to block Bessemer mayor Jess Lanier's plan to annex the community.

The 2020 census counted 16,776 people in 6,545 households in Hueytown, with 7,128 housing units; earlier counts were 16,105 in 2010 and 15,364 in 2000.

The city covers about 20.1 square miles and is accessible from Interstate 20/59 exits 112 and 115.

Hueytown's growth was shaped by heavy industry: the Woodward Iron Company, formed by brothers William and Joseph Woodward on New Year's Eve 1881, began operating its first blast furnace in 1883 and by the 1920s was one of the nation's largest pig-iron suppliers; the last furnace closed in 1973.

An underground explosion at the Virginia Mines coal mine in February 1905 killed 106 men, one of the worst mining disasters in Alabama history; the mine closed permanently in 1953.

Hueytown is famous in motorsports as the home of NASCAR's "Alabama Gang" - Bobby Allison, Donnie Allison, Davey Allison, Clifford Allison, Neil Bonnett, and Red Farmer - and the city's main thoroughfare is named Allison-Bonnett Memorial Drive in their honor.

Because of its motorsports roots, Hueytown was chosen as BMW Motorsport's initial North American base of operations before its first IMSA season in 1975.

In 1992 the city became known for the unexplained "Hueytown Hum," a noise later thought to have been caused by large underground ventilation fans in a nearby coal mine.