| Official Name: | Piper, Alabama |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Alabama#USA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the state of Alabama |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Coordinates: | 33.0894°N -87.0414°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bibb |
| Elevation Ft: | 509 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Area Code: | 205, 659 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 156903 |
Piper is an unincorporated community in Bibb County, Alabama, United States.
Piper was named for Oliver Hazzard Perry Piper, who founded the Little Cahaba Coal Company and was a business partner of Henry F. DeBardeleben.[1] The Little Cahaba Coal Company operated two mines at Piper.[2] Combined with nearby Coleanor, the two towns had a combined population of nearly 2,500.[3] Coal was shipped from Piper to Birmingham on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The last mine in Piper was closed in the 1950s.[4]
In February 1934, members of the United Mine Workers called a strike at the Piper mines. Governor Benjamin M. Miller called in the Alabama National Guard to maintain order.[5]
Six miners were killed in a mining accident in Piper on May 31, 1925.[6]
A post office operated under the name Piper from 1905 to 1955.[7]