Aerial view of the Mobile River at its confluence with Chickasaw Creek, about 5 miles (8 km) above Mobile Bay. This photograph was taken about 1990 during construction of the Cochrane-Africatown bridge carrying U.S. Route 90 across the river. The bridge piers and construction crane are visible in the picture.
The 'Mobile River' 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 (72 km) river drains an area of 44,000 sq mi (115,000 km²) of Alabama, with a
watershed extending into
Mississippi,
Georgia, and
Tennessee. Its drainage basin is the sixth-largest in the United States. The river has historically provided the principal navigational access for Alabama. Since construction of the
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, it also provides an alternative route into the
Ohio River watershed.
The Tombigbee and Alabama River join to form the Mobile River approximately 50 mi (80 km) NNE of
Mobile, along the county line between
Mobile and
Baldwin counties. The combined stream flows south, in a winding course. Approximately 6 mi (10 km) downstream from the confluence, the channel of the river divides, with the Mobile flowing along the western channel. The
Tensaw River, a
bayou of the Mobile River, flows alongside to the east, separated from 2 to 5 mi (3 to 8 km) as they flow southward. The Mobile River reaches
Mobile Bay on the
Gulf of Mexico just east of downtown Mobile.
Crossings
This is a list of
bridges and other crossings of the Mobile River from
Mobile Bay upstream to its source at the confluence of the
Tombigbee and
Alabama rivers. Proposals for a new bridge to carry Interstate 10 over the river have been debated for several years. Currently the
Alabama Department of Transportation iconducting an environmental impact study for such a crossing and into the widening of the
Mobile Bayway, which carries Interstate 10 over
Mobile Bay. The location of this bridge is of great debate with some parties pushing for a crossing south of the current tunnels while others are opposed to anything south of the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge.
See also
★
List of Alabama rivers
Notes
1.
"River Plume Productivity" (short title), Institute for Marine Remote Sensing (IMaRS),
''Oceanic Atlas of the Gulf of Mexico'', 2001-10-04, web:
USF-edu-RPlumeProd.
External links
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USGS: Mobile River Basin
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University of Alabama: Mobile River System
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Mobile River Terminal
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