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1984 Map of Mobile

Name: 1984 Topographic Map of Mobile
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1984
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1984

About this map

The sprawling port of Mobile and its industrial waterfront dominate the eastern reaches of this mid-1980s coastal survey. The urban core, comprising Prichard, Chickasaw, and Saraland, is defined by a dense network of transit including the Louisville and Nashville and Illinois Central Gulf railroads. Along the shores of Mobile Bay, the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial State Park stands as a prominent landmark near Pinto Island and McDuffie Island.

Moving west across the state line into Mississippi, the landscape shifts to the protected timberlands of the De Soto National Forest and the University of Mississippi Forest. This region is bisected by the broad, braided channels of the Pascagoula River, where the Pascagoula River State Wildlife Management Area preserves the river bottomlands. Small timber and rail towns such as Lucedale and Benndale anchor the rural interior, connected by highways like Us 98 through the Whiskey Creek Hills.