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'''Adger''' is an unincorporated [[List of communities in Jefferson County|community]] in a coal-mining region of southwestern [[Jefferson County]]. The community is centered at the intersection of [[Mud Creek Road]] and [[Johns Road]] adjoining [[North Johns]] and [[Valley Creek]] alongside the [[Louisville & Nashville Railroad]] west of [[Bessemer]]. | '''Adger''' is an unincorporated [[List of communities in Jefferson County|community]] in a coal-mining region of southwestern [[Jefferson County]]. The community is centered at the intersection of [[Mud Creek Road]] and [[Johns Road]] adjoining [[North Johns]] and [[Valley Creek]] alongside the [[Louisville & Nashville Railroad]] west of [[Bessemer]]. | ||
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Adger is an unincorporated community in a coal-mining region of southwestern Jefferson County. The community is centered at the intersection of Mud Creek Road and Johns Road adjoining North Johns and Valley Creek alongside the Louisville & Nashville Railroad west of Bessemer.
The Adger community largely coincides with ZIP code 35006, which had 3,109 residents according to the 2000 U. S. Census. Of those, 92% were white and 6.4% black. School age residents attend Oak Grove schools.
The Oak Grove Mine, Shoal Creek Mine, Shannon Mine, and Jim Walter #3 Mine are all active in the area around Adger.
On February 2, 2007 a Cessna 172 crashed between Adger and Mud Creek, killing a man and wife en route from their home in Hornersville, Missouri to Marathon, Florida.