Inverness is a former

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and now neighborhood within

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, a suburb of

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, United States. It derives from a

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city of the

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runs through Inverness and includes many restaurants and shopping centers, along with a major intersection with Valleydale Road (County Road 17). The Inverness community is only a few miles from downtown Birmingham. The

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, Lake Heather, and the Inverness Country Club can be found in Inverness. Inverness is mostly located within the city limits of

, with some portions in unincorporated Shelby County. An F2 tornado damaged business buildings here along with Pelham,

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, and Indian Springs on March 27, 1994.

Demographics

Inverness was classified as a

or CDP within Shelby County for the 1990 U.S. Census.http://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/cp-1/cp-1-2.pdf It was soon after annexed into the city of Hoover.

References

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