ALABAMA CITY, a city of Etowah county, Alabama, U.S.A., 6om. N.E. of Birmingham; 21m. N.W. of Gadsden. It is served by the Southern, the Louisville and Nashville, and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railways. The population was 5,432 ih 192o, and was 8,544 in 1930 by the Federal census. It has large cotton mills and steel factories. Coal and iron are mined in the vicinity.