Mobile Point is the apex of a long, low, narrow, sandy peninsula between the
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United ...
on the south and
Bon Secour Bay and
Navy Cove on the north. The point is the eastern limit of the entrance into
Mobile Bay
Mobile Bay ( ) is a shallow 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 ...
, which it partially encloses. It is located in
Baldwin County, Alabama
Baldwin County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama, on the Gulf coast. It is one of only two counties in Alabama that border the Gulf of Mexico, along with Mobile County. As of the 2020 census, the pop ...
. At its western tip is
Fort Morgan, which faces
Fort Gaines sitting across the inlet to the Mobile Bay, on
Dauphin Island
Dauphin Island is an island town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, on a barrier island of the same name, in the Gulf of Mexico. It incorporated in 1988. The population was 1,778 at the 2020 census, up from 1,238 at the 2010 census. The t ...
. Along the point is the unincorporated community of
Fort Morgan, Alabama.
"History lost and found"
''Gulf Coast News Today''. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
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Landforms of Baldwin County, Alabama
Mobile Bay
Peninsulas of Alabama
Alabama placenames of Native American origin
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