Bayou La Batre
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city in Mobile County, Alabama, USA
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Mobile
- Type
- Mayor-Council
- Mayor
- Henry Barnes
- Total
- 7.63 sq mi (19.77 km )
- Land
- 7.49 sq mi (19.40 km )
- Water
- 0.14 sq mi (0.37 km )
- Elevation
- 10 ft (3.0 m)
- Density
- 294.3/sq mi (113.62/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 01-04684
- Website
- cityofbayoulabatre .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Bayou La Batre
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mobile County
- Population
- 2204
- Area
- 19.737495
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Official website
- cityofbayoulabatre.com
- Image
- Bayou La Batre harbor aerial view.jpg
- Households
- 911
- Dialing code
- 251
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- Commons category
- Bayou La Batre, Alabama
- postal code
- 36509
- inception
- 1786-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 1.8679
- P8168
- Doubravka of Bohemia
- water area
- 0.36867
- per capita income
- 18045
- mean age
- 44.2
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Encyclopedic overview
Bayou La Batre (/ˌbaɪ.oʊ lə ˈbætri/ or locally /ˌbaɪlə ˈbætri/) is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is part of the Mobile metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,204, down from 2,558 at the 2010 census.
Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats. The local chamber of commerce has described the city as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama" for packaging seafood from hundreds of fishing boats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bayou La Batre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.