Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Mulga, AL

Mulga is a small incorporated town in western Jefferson County, Alabama, on Alabama Highway 269 between Pleasant Grove and Adamsville, just north of Pleasant Grove.

Mulga grew up around coal mining: the Birmingham Coal and Iron Company opened the Mulga Mine in 1907 and built a company town around it, while the present-day town began as a private housing community for people who wanted an alternative to the company's residences.

Mulga was first recognized as a distinct community in 1907, the year its post office was established, and its name is thought to be derived from the Creek word omalga.

During the 1910s the Mulga Mine employed as many as 400 people, and mining in the area continued into the 1960s.

Forty-one men were killed in a 1910 explosion at the Mulga mine.

In 1911 the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company built Bayview Dam to create Bayview Lake, a reservoir of water for use in steel making, and the former 'model mining village' of Bayview was later annexed into the Town of Mulga by a vote of its residents.

Mulga incorporated in 1947 so that it could apply for funding for a water supply, and the town now supplies water to surrounding communities as well.

Mulga's communities were damaged by the F5 tornado that struck the Birmingham area on April 8, 1998.

A burning pile of mine waste at the abandoned Mulga gob site smoldered for years until a reclamation project extinguished the fire between 2007 and 2010; the project won the 2013 national Abandoned Mine Land award for the Mid-Continent region.

The 2020 census counted 784 residents in Mulga, down from 836 in 2010, within a compact town area of only about 0.6 square miles.