Mobile River
The Mobile River French Mobile Rivière is located in southern Alabama in the United States. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers, the approximately 45-mile-long river drains an area of 44,000 square miles of Alabama, with a watershed extending into Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Alabama, United States
- Also known as: “Alabama River”, “Fiume Mobile”, “Rio del Espiritu Santo”, “Rio del Spirito”, and “River Maubile”
Places of Interest
Highlights include USS Alabama and USS Drum.
USS Alabama
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
USS Alabama, hull number BB-60, is a retired battleship. She was the fourth and final member of the South Dakota class of fast battleships built for the United States Navy in the 1940s during World War II. USS Alabama is situated 2 miles northeast of Mobile River.
USS Drum
Protected area
Photo: Jpemartin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
USS Drum is a Gato-class submarine of the United States Navy, the first Navy ship named after the drum, a type of fish. Drum is a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama, at Battleship Memorial Park. USS Drum is situated 1½ miles northeast of Mobile River.
Pinto Island
Island
Pinto Island is an island in the U.S. state of Alabama, within the city limits of Mobile. Located on the northwestern coast of Mobile Bay, it is bounded on the west by the Mobile River, on the south by Mobile Bay, on the east by the Spanish River, and on the north by Pinto Pass and Blakeley Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mobile and Toulminville.
Mobile
Mobile is a city in the state of Alabama in the South of the United States of America with almost a half million people in the metro area. Mobile is a historic, diverse port city with a strong southern culture and heritage.
Toulminville
Neighborhood
Toulminville is a neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, United States. It began as a small settlement on the property of Harry Theophilus Toulmin, who served as Sheriff of Mobile County in the 1830s. Toulminville is situated 5 miles northwest of Mobile River.
Prichard
Town
Photo: Mjrmtg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Prichard is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 19,322 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 18,816 in 2023. Prichard borders the north side of Mobile, as well as the Mobile suburbs of Chickasaw, Saraland, and the unincorporated sections of Eight Mile. Prichard is situated 6 miles northwest of Mobile River.
Mobile River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Mobile, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Mobile River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر موبيل”
- Asturian: “Ríu Mobile”
- Basque: “Mobile ibaia”
- Belarusian: “Мабіл”
- Catalan: “Mobile”
- Cebuano: “Mobile River”
- Chinese: “莫比尔河”
- Danish: “Mobile River”
- Dutch: “Mobile”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر موبيل”
- Esperanto: “Mobile”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Mobile”
- French: “Mobile”
- German: “Mobile River”
- Hungarian: “Mobile”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Mobile”
- Irish: “Abhainn Mobile”
- Italian: “Mobile”
- Japanese: “モービル川”
- Mingrelian: “მობილი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “მობილი”
- Northern Frisian: “Mobile (Struum)”
- Northern Frisian: “Mobile”
- Persian: “رود موبیل”
- Polish: “Mobile (rzeka)”
- Polish: “Mobile”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mobile”
- Russian: “Мобил”
- Serbian: “Мобил”
- Slovenian: “Mobile River”
- Slovenian: “Mobile”
- Slovenian: “reka Mobile”
- Spanish: “Rio Mobile”
- Spanish: “Río Mobile”
- Ukrainian: “Мобіл”
- Venetian: “Mobile”
- Welsh: “Afon Mobile”
- Western Frisian: “Mobile”
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Localities in the Area
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