Hoover, Alabama
city in Jefferson and Shelby counties in north central Alabama, United States
Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, United States. The sixth-largest city in Alabama, its population was 92,606 at the 2020 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham metropolitan statistical area and is also included in the Birmingham-Cullman-Talladega combined statistical area. Hoover's territory is along the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Birmingham Barons Minor League Baseball team, which traces its history to 1885, played its home games at the 10,800-seat Hoover Metropolitan Stadium from 1988 through 2013, when it moved to Regions Field in the Parkside District of Birmingham.
History
This suburban area near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains had been known as the Green Valley community since the 1930s; it was mostly a bedroom or residential community into the late 1970s and early 1980s. The City of Hoover was incorporated in 1967, named for William H. Hoover (1890–1979), a local insurance company owner.
On September 8, 1980, the city annexed the Riverchase business and residential community, gaining large office buildings, employers, and workers to increase the city's tax base. When Interstate 459 was opened, a major interchange with Interstate 65 was constructed within the borders of Hoover, improving access.
In 1986, the Riverchase Galleria multiuse complex opened; it has significantly increased the tax revenue for the city.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hoover, Alabama” as city in Jefferson and Shelby counties in north central Alabama, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as city in Jefferson and Shelby counties in north central Alabama, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q79950. VIAF identifies the subject as 157248822. The Library of Congress control number is n92075845. Authority coordinates are 33.386, -86.806. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1885, 1988 and 2013.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hoover, Alabama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.