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Pinson is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, northeast of Birmingham and northwest of Center Point, with a population of 7,215 at the 2020 census.

Although Pinson is one of Alabama's oldest communities, it is one of its newest cities: residents voted to incorporate in an election on March 30, 2004, after a grassroots drive led by the group Pinson Incorporating Neighbors.

The community was originally known as Hagood's Crossroads, named for early settler Zachariah Hagood and his family, and was later called Mount Pinson before becoming simply Pinson.

Before incorporation, Pinson was a census-designated place, and the combined Pinson-Clay-Chalkville CDP counted 10,987 residents in the 1990 census before the communities were counted separately.

The 2020 census counted 7,215 people in 2,725 households in Pinson, including 1,997 families.

Pinson contains the Palmerdale Homesteads, the first of five farmers' resettlement communities built in Alabama under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, with the first of its 102 homesteads completed in 1935.

The Turkey Creek Nature Preserve in Pinson was established in 2003 to protect Turkey Creek Falls and the endangered vermilion darter, a small fish found only in the Turkey Creek watershed and nowhere else in the world; the preserve opened to the public in 2009 and has since grown past 1,000 acres.

Pinson hosts the Alabama Butterbean Festival each year along Main Street and in Triangle Park, celebrating the humble butterbean with food, music and a cooking contest.

Pinson's public schools, part of Jefferson County Schools, are Pinson Elementary School, Kermit Johnson Elementary School, Rudd Middle School and Pinson Valley High School.

Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix, who played at Pinson Valley High School, is among the notable people from Pinson.