Local coverage
Project conversations across Mobile County and the central Gulf Coast.
Which independent provider is available shifts with season and location — each community below has its own housing and storm-exposure notes.
Prichard
Prichard developed just north of downtown Mobile as an industrial and shipping-adjacent community through the early twentieth cent...
Local planning notes →Saraland
Saraland grew north of Mobile along Interstate 65 as a bedroom community starting in the 1950s and 60s, incorporating in 1957 as M...
Local planning notes →Chickasaw
Chickasaw was built rapidly during World War II to house workers at the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, growing from far...
Local planning notes →Semmes
Semmes sits in western Mobile County and grew more slowly than the city's northern suburbs, developing as a lower-density, more ru...
Local planning notes →Theodore
Theodore lies south of Mobile on flat coastal-plain land closer to the industrial corridor along the Mobile River delta, and its g...
Local planning notes →Tillmans Corner
Tillmans Corner grew as an unincorporated commercial and residential hub southwest of Mobile in the second half of the twentieth c...
Local planning notes →Dauphin Island
Dauphin Island is a barrier island at the mouth of Mobile Bay that has been rebuilt more than once after direct hurricane strikes,...
Local planning notes →Bayou La Batre
Bayou La Batre is a historic Gulf Coast fishing and seafood-industry village southwest of Mobile, long known as 'the Seafood Capit...
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