Reform (/ˈriːfɔːrm/; REE-form) is a city in Pickens County, Alabama, United States.
It wasn't incorporated until March 2, 1898, following the community getting train service via the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
[2] According to tradition, the community was named from an incident when an evangelist paid the new settlement a visit, imploring the first settlers to "reform".
[4] In May 1968, a mule train, part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference sponsored Poor People's Campaign, stopped for two days in Reform before heading to Tuscaloosa, Alabama on its way to Washington, DC.
The tornado touched down near Reform and tracked through Pickens, Lamar, and Fayette counties.
US 82 runs northwest to southeast through the city, leading southeast 8 mi (13 km) to Gordo and 31 mi (50 km) to Tuscaloosa, the largest city of over 100,000 people closest to the area.
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,520 people, 696 households, and 475 families residing in the town.