City Profiles

Wilsonville

INCORPORATED 1897 POPULATION: 2,246

Wilsonville is a small, family-focused town located in the heart of Shelby County. Its parks boast a baseball field complex and a softball field, and its library is complete with a summer reading program and computers for public use. For recreation you’ll find Lay Lake, horse farms and a myriad of other outdoor activities, and the town has six active churches. You’ll find hometown businesses in the town for typical needs, and bigger stores just a short drive away in three different directions. Whatever type property you might want, acreage, waterfront, wooded, pasture, commercial or office, “small town downtown,” large or small, Wilsonville probably has it. wilsonvilleal.com

WILTON

INCORPORATED 1918

2017 POPULATION: 685

Once a prominent railroad town, Wilton was and is nestled in the southwest corner of Shelby County on Highway 25. The town was orignally known as Woodsborough by the settlers who came there from the Carolinas, and it was later named as Woods, then Junction, then Birmingham Junction, and then Bismarck (after the first chancellor of Imperial Germany) as trains hauled away coal that was mined nearby. Finally in 1918 it was incorporated as Wilton. Its post office has been standing since it was built in 1892 and historically served for both mail service and informal communication center. wiltonalabama.net

Indian Springs Village

INCORPORATED 1990 POPULATION: 2,590

Indian Springs was incorporated October 16, 1990 with 380 households and 1,115 residents, and today is home to 868 housholds and 2,590 residents. The town council met at Indian Springs School for the first time five years after incorporation and had its first town council meeting in present building December 19, 1995 and the first social activity at the pavilion October 15, 1996. Within city limits you’ll find three churches and seven private and public schools. Its garden club was established in 2000. indianspringsvillage.org