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Mobile River

The Mobile River is located in southern Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Formed out of the confluence of the Tombigbee

Tombigbee River

The Tombigbee River is a tributary of the Mobile River, approximately 400 mi long, in the U.S. states of Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of two major rivers, along with the Alabama River, that unite to form the short Mobile River before it empties into Mobile Bay on the Gulf of Mexico....
and Alabama

Alabama River

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
extending into Mississippi

Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
. Its drainage basin is the fourth-largest of primary stream drainage basins entirely in the United States. The river has historically provided the principal navigational access for Alabama.

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The Mobile River is located in southern Alabama

Alabama

United States

Tombigbee River

Alabama River

Drainage basin

Mississippi

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is a 234-mile artificial waterway that provides a connecting link between the Tennessee River and Tombigbee River rivers....
, it also provides an alternative route into the Ohio River

Ohio River

The Ohio River is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River. It is approximately 981 miles long and is located in the eastern United States....
watershed.

The Tombigbee and Alabama River join to form the Mobile River approximately 50 mi (80 km) NNE of Mobile

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern United States United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama....
, along the county line between Mobile

Mobile County, Alabama

Mobile County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. Its name is in honor of a tribe of Native Americans in the United States, the Maubila tribe ....
and Baldwin

Baldwin County, Alabama

Baldwin County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is named in honor of Abraham Baldwin, a member of the United States Senate. As of 2000 the population is 140,415 ....
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

Tensaw River

The Tensaw River is a distributary of the Mobile River, approximately 36 mi long, in southern Alabama in the United States. It is formed as a bayou of the Mobile approximately 6 mi south of the formation of the Mobile by the confluence of the Tombigbee River and Alabama River rivers....
, a bayou

Bayou

A bayou is a small, slow-moving stream or creek, or a lake or pool that lies in an abandoned channel of a stream. Bayous are usually located in relatively flat, low-lying areas, for example, in the Mississippi River River delta region of the southern United States....
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

Mobile Bay

Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth largest body of water in the world. Considered a smaller part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is an oceanic basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba....
just east of downtown Mobile.

Biodiversity

The Mobile River Basin historically supported the greatest biodiversity

Biodiversity

Snail

The word snail is a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled animal shells in the adult stage. When the word snail is used in a general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails....
species in the world (Bogan et al. 1995), including six genera and over 100 species that were endemic

Endemic

Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or Natural environment; native to an area or scope....
to the Mobile River Basin. During the past few decades, publications in the scientific literature have primarily dealt with the apparent decimation

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth. Biodiversity is often used as a measure of the health of biological systems....
of this fauna following the construction of dams within the Mobile River Basin and the inundation of extensive shoal (a shallow place in a body of water) habitats by impounded waters (Goodrich 1944, Athearn 1970, Heard 1970, Stein 1976, Palmer 1986, Garner 1990).

Crossings

This is a list of bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, Rail tracks, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle....
s and other crossings of the Mobile River from Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay

Tombigbee River

Alabama River

The Alabama River, in the United States state of Alabama, is formed by the Tallapoosa River and Coosa River rivers, which unite about six miles above Montgomery, 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 is conducting an environmental impact study for such a crossing and into the widening of the Jubilee Parkway

Jubilee Parkway

The Jubilee Parkway is a pair of parallel concrete viaduct bridges that carry Interstate 10 in Alabama across Mobile Bay from the George Wallace Tunnel in Mobile, Alabama eastbound to Spanish Fort, Alabama/Daphne, Alabama....
, which carries Interstate 10 over Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay

Mobile Bay is an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, lying within the state of Alabama in the United States. Its mouth is formed by the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the eastern side and Dauphin Island, a barrier island on the western side....
. 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.

Crossing	Carries	Location
George Wallace Tunnel George Wallace Tunnel The George Wallace Tunnel is a tunnel along Interstate 10 in Alabama in Mobile, Alabama that crosses beneath the Mobile River.It, like the smaller Bankhead Tunnel a few blocks upriver from it, was constructed in Mobile at the shipyards of the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company from 1969-1973....	Interstate 10 Interstate 10 Interstate 10 is the southernmost east-west, coast-to-coast Interstate Highway in the United States. It stretches from the Pacific Ocean at California State Route 1 in Santa Monica, California, California to Interstate 95 in Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, Florida....	Mobile Mobile, Alabama Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern United States United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama....
Bankhead Tunnel Bankhead Tunnel The Bankhead Tunnel is a tunnel in Mobile, Alabama that begins on Government Street in downtown Mobile, travels eastbound under the Mobile River, and emerges to join the Battleship Parkway....	U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 90 is an east-west United States highway. Despite the "0" in its route number, US 90 never was a full coast-to-coast route; it has always ended at Van Horn, Texas.... U.S. Route 98 U.S. Route 98 U.S. Route 98 is an east-west United States highway that runs from southern Florida to western Mississippi. It was established in 1933 as a route between Pensacola, Florida and Apalachicola, Florida, and has since been extended eastward across the Florida Peninsula and westward into Mississippi....
Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge The Cochrane ? Africatown USA Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge carrying U.S. Route 90 and U.S. Route 98 across the Mobile River in Mobile, Alabama....	U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 90 U.S. Route 90 is an east-west United States highway. Despite the "0" in its route number, US 90 never was a full coast-to-coast route; it has always ended at Van Horn, Texas.... U.S. Route 98 U.S. Route 98 U.S. Route 98 is an east-west United States highway that runs from southern Florida to western Mississippi. It was established in 1933 as a route between Pensacola, Florida and Apalachicola, Florida, and has since been extended eastward across the Florida Peninsula and westward into Mississippi....
14-Mile Bridge	CSX
General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge The General W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge consists of two parallel tied arch bridges and adjoining concrete viaduct bridges that carry 4 lanes of Interstate 65 across the Mobile River-Tensaw River delta northeast of the United States city of Mobile, Alabama....	Interstate 65 Interstate 65 Interstate 65 is a major Interstate Highway in the United States. The southern terminus is located at an intersection with Interstate 10 in Mobile, Alabama, and its northern terminus is at a traffic light with U.S....

Mobile River

Biodiversity

Crossings

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