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Kimberly is a city in northern Jefferson County, Alabama, in the northern suburbs of Birmingham.

The community grew up around a stagecoach station built in the 1830s and was first known as Kennelsville, then as Jefferson, probably after the nearby Old Jefferson coal mine.

Residents voted to rename the town Kimberly in 1905 because another Alabama town had already claimed the name Jefferson.

Kimberly officially incorporated in 1952 and, after its population jumped from 1,801 in 2000 to 2,711 in 2010, began operating as a city under Alabama law on June 29, 2011.

The 2020 census counted 3,841 residents in 1,355 households — a 41.7 percent increase over 2010 — with 42.7 percent of households including children under 18.

Coal mines were Kimberly's primary employers through the 1940s before gradually closing in the 1950s, and the Dixie Firebrick Company was another major employer from the 1930s until the mid-1970s.

Many of Kimberly's early records were lost when its city hall burned in 1989.

Three Jefferson County schools stand in Kimberly — Bryan Elementary School, North Jefferson Middle School and Mortimer Jordan High School — serving Kimberly and the neighboring communities of Morris, Warrior and Trafford.

The city covers about 5.86 square miles, and the Census Bureau classified all of its 2020 population as rural despite its suburban growth.