Gulfcrest is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

and

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Mobile County, Alabama Mobile County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the third-most populous county in the state after Jefferson County, Alabama, Jefferson and Madison County, Alabama, Ma ...

, United States. Its population was 142 as of the 2020 census.

Geography

Gulfcrest is in northern Mobile County, along

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, which leads southeast to Mobile and north to

Citronelle Citronelle is a city on the northern border of Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 3,946. It is included in the Mobile metropolitan statistical area a ...

. According to the

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, Gulfcrest has a total area of , of which , or 0.20%, are water. Chickasaw Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the

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, forms the eastern boundary of the Gulfcrest CDP.

Demographics

The community is about a third African American.

Notable people

* Oscar W. Adams Sr., publisher of the ''Birmingham Reporter'' and father of Alabama Supreme Court justice Oscar W. Adams Jr.

Education

Residents are zoned to

Mobile County Public School System Mobile County Public School System (MCPSS) is a school district based in unincorporated area, unincorporated Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The system currently serves areas of Mobile County, including the city ...

campuses. Residents are zoned to McDavid-Jones Elementary School (K-5), Lott Middle School (6-8), and

Citronelle High School Citronelle High School is a senior high school in Citronelle, Alabama. It is a part of the Mobile County Public School System. In serves: Citronelle, Axis, Bucks, Chunchula, Creola, Gulfcrest, Mount Vernon, and Movico, as well as the Mobile ...

(9-12).Citronelle High School Attendance Zone
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. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.

References

Census-designated places in Mobile County, Alabama Census-designated places in Alabama {{MobileCountyAL-geo-stub