About Pleasant Grove, Alabama

Pleasant Grove is a city of 9,544 people in western Jefferson County, part of the Birmingham metropolitan area. David Brown, its first settler, arrived around 1836, and the land here was first homesteaded in September of that year. By the 1880 census the area held 74 people and had come to be called Pleasant Grove, though no one is sure how it got the name.

For decades the families here lived by farming. That changed in 1916, when the area's first coal mine opened, and the local economy soon came to rest on the mines. The city grew out of four communities, Cottage Hill, Frog Pond, Lizard Ridge and the original Pleasant Grove.

“Residents would sometimes go to their well to draw water only to find there was none. The water had gone into the mines.”
Wikipedia
  • Incorporated on January 16, 1934Pleasant Grove was established in 1889 but went without a city government for decades. The deep coal mines under the town drained its wells, and in the 1930s a federal program would pay for local water systems only in incorporated communities. So the residents incorporated, the town built its new water system, and W.P. Stone became the first appointed mayor.
  • Four large tornadoesLarge tornadoes damaged the city in 1956, 1977, 1998 and 2011. The worst struck on April 27, 2011, when a storm tore through Pleasant Grove, wrecked many homes and killed 10 people.
  • Milk CreekPleasant Grove's Milk Creek takes its name from the water itself, which is creamy white in color and thick in texture.
  • A high school built in 1970Pleasant Grove High School opened in 1970 and was joined with the junior high, and the state of Alabama accredited the schools in May 1973. A new high school building was finished in 2010, and the old one became the JCIB Middle School.

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Names on the Pleasant Grove map

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Places and landmarks5

  • Cedarbrook Forest
  • Cottage Hill
  • Highland Forest
  • Pleasant Acres
  • Pleasant Grove Estates

Streets and roads133

  • First Avenue
  • 13th Avenue
  • Seventh Place
  • Fifth Avenue
  • Ninth Street
  • Twelfth Lane
  • Ninth Way
  • Sylvan Springs Road
  • Pleasant Grove Road North
  • Annie Lane
  • Pleasant Grove Road
  • Eighth Street
  • Fourth Avenue
  • Park Road
  • Seventh Avenue
  • Eleventh Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Second Avenue
  • Twelfth Street
  • Ninth Avenue
  • New Mulga Loop Road
  • Third Street
  • Eighth Place
  • Fourth Court
  • Fourth Way
  • 13th Street
  • Fifth Street
  • Seventh Street
  • Eleventh Avenue
  • Twelfth Terrace
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  • Fifth Way
  • 13th Court
  • Sixth Street
  • Tenth Street
  • Fourth Terrace
  • 14th Street
  • Tenth Way
  • Eighth Avenue
  • Fifth Place
  • Eleventh Place
  • Ninth Court
  • Twelfth Avenue
  • Tenth Avenue
  • Third Avenue
  • Forest Road
  • 13th Way
  • Sixth Court
  • Fourth Place
  • Fourth Plaza
  • Smithfield Forest Drive
  • 14th Avenue
  • Twelfth Court
  • Dogwood Lane
  • Tenth Court
  • Ensley Pleasant Grove Road
  • Fifth Court
  • Sixth Way
  • 13th Place
  • Eleventh Way
  • Second Place
  • First Place
  • Twelfth Plaza
  • Altamont Drive
  • Ninth Terrace
  • Tenth Place
  • Smithfield Park Circle
  • Ridge Way
  • Sixth Avenue
  • Third Terrace
  • 13th Terrace
  • First Way
  • Eighth Court
  • 17th Street
  • Woodridge Place
  • Red Rock Circle
  • 14th Way
  • 16th Street
  • Gardenia Circle
  • Inverness Street
  • Elm Street
  • 14th Place
  • Woodridge Lane
  • Fairlane Drive
  • Tenth Terrace
  • Walnut Drive
  • Newberry Drive
  • Eleventh Court
  • First Street
  • Oak Ridge Drive
  • Jennifer Drive
  • Third Lane
  • Eleventh Terrace
  • Third Way
  • Smithfield Forest Lane
  • Rock Creek Lane
  • Rolling Ridge Circle
  • Seventh Way
  • Second Way
  • East Pleasant Grove Road
  • Second Terrace
  • Holland Drive
  • First Terrace
  • Woodridge Drive
  • Fourth Lane
  • 13th Lane
  • Brooke Lyn Road
  • Second Street
  • Eleventh Street West
  • Cypress Lane
  • Third Court
  • Church Street
  • Bel Air Circle
  • Barbara Lane
  • Third Plaza
  • Eighth Alley
  • Park Place
  • Cherry Avenue
  • Third Place
  • Ninth Place
  • Fifth Terrace
  • Elkhart Street
  • 14th Lane
  • Oak Place
  • Victoria Lane
  • Seventh Court
  • Church Alley
  • Smithfield Forest Place
  • 15th Street
  • Smithfield Forest Circle
  • Anna Court
  • 14th Court
  • Tenth Lane
  • Tenth Plaza

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