Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama | |
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| Nickname(s): "The Port City", "Azalea City", "The City of Six Flags" | |
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Mobile Location within Alabama Mobile Location within the United States | |
| Coordinates: 30°40′03″N 88°06′04″W / 30.66750°N 88.10111°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Mobile |
| Founded | 1702 |
| Incorporated (town) | January 20, 1814[1][2] |
| Incorporated (city) | December 17, 1819[3] |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-Council |
| • Mayor | Sandy Stimpson (R[a]) |
| Area | |
• City | 180.07 sq mi (466.39 km2) |
| • Land | 139.48 sq mi (361.26 km2) |
| • Water | 40.59 sq mi (105.14 km2) |
| • Urban | 220.75 sq mi (571.7 km2) |
| • Metro | 1,229 sq mi (3,184 km2) |
| Elevation | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Population | |
• City | 187,041 |
• Estimate (2022)[8] | 183,289 |
| • Rank | US: 141st AL: 4th |
| • Density | 1,314/sq mi (507.4/km2) |
| • Urban | 321,907 (US: 126th)[5] |
| • Urban density | 1,458.3/sq mi (563.0/km2) |
| • Metro | 411,640 (US: 133rd) |
| • Metro density | 335/sq mi (129.2/km2) |
| • Combined | 665,147 (US: 79th) |
| • Combined density | 172.6/sq mi (66.63/km2) |
| Demonym | Mobilian |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| ZIP Codes | Zip codes[9] |
| Area code | 251 |
| FIPS code | 01-50000 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2404278[6] |
| Website | cityofmobile.org |
Mobile (/moʊˈbiːl/ moh-BEEL, French: [mɔbil] ⓘ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census[7] and estimated at 204,689 following an annexation in 2023, making it the second-most populous city in Alabama. The Mobile metropolitan area, with an estimated 412,000 people, is the third-most populous metropolitan area in the state.[10]
Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of Mobile Bay on the north-central Gulf Coast.[11] The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonists and Native Americans, and now to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.[12][13] During the American Civil War, the city surrendered to Federal forces on April 12, 1865,[14] after Union victories at two forts protecting the city.
Considered one of the Gulf Coast's cultural centers, Mobile has several art museums, a symphony orchestra, professional opera, professional ballet company, and a large concentration of historic architecture.[15][16] Mobile is known for having Mardi Gras, the oldest organized Carnival celebration in the United States. Alabama's French Creole population celebrated this festival from the first decade of the 18th century. Beginning in 1830, Mobile was home to the first organized Carnival mystic society to celebrate with a parade in the United States.[17]
- ^ "Municipalities of Alabama Incorporation Dates" (PDF). Alabama League of Municipalities. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 26, 2024. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
- ^ "An Act to provide for Government of the Town of Mobile. —Passed January 20, 1814". A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing The Statutes and Resolutions in Force at the end of the General Assembly in January 1823. New-York: Ginn & Curtis. 1828. Title 62. ch. XII. pp. 780–781 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "An Act to incorporate the City of Mobile. —Passed December 17, 1819". A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing The Statutes and Resolutions in Force at the end of the General Assembly in January 1823. New-York: Ginn & Curtis. 1828. Title 62. ch. XVI. pp. 784–791 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. "Mobile City". Retrieved March 17, 2024.
- ^ United States Census Bureau (December 29, 2022). "2020 Census Qualifying Urban Areas and Final Criteria Clarifications". Federal Register.
- ^ a b "Mobile, Alabama". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ a b "Explore Census Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 17, 2024.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "P1. Race: Total Population". 2020 Census. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
- ^ "Mobile Alabama". Britannica Online. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
- ^ Drechsel, Emanuel (1997). Mobilian Jargon: Linguistic and Sociohistorical Aspects of a Native American Pidgin. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-824033-3.
- ^ "Waterborne Commerce Statistics: Calendar Year 2010" (PDF). United States Army Corps of Engineers. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 16, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ Bunn, Mike (May 8, 2017). "Battle of Fort Blakeley". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
- ^ "General Information". Mobile Museum of Art. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved October 23, 2007.
- ^ "About Region". SeniorsResourceGuide.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved May 5, 2007.
- ^ "Mobile Mardi Gras Timeline". The Museum of Mobile. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved November 14, 2007.
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