Perdido, also known as Perdido Station, is an

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 ...

and

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in Baldwin County,

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, United States. Perdido is located along County Route 61, northeast of

Bay Minette Bay Minette is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 8,107. History In the first days of Baldwin County, the town of McIntosh Bluff (now in Mobile Count ...

. Perdido has a

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with ZIP code 36562. It has an elementary school, Perdido School, which is part of the

Baldwin County Board of Education The Baldwin County Board of Education oversees most public schools in Baldwin County, Alabama, and is based in Bay Minette, Alabama. The Board serves the entire county. Over 30,000 students are within the supervision of the Board. 3,400 employ ...

Demographics

The community had a population of 730 as of the 2020 census.

History

Perdido is named after the

Perdido River The Perdido River, also historically known as Rio Perdido or by its native name of Cassaba, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 15, 2011 river in the U.S. states ...

. A post office operated under the name Perdido Station from 1871 to 1923, and under the name Perdido from 1923 to present.

Cultural references

Perdido is the setting of author and screenwriter Michael McDowell's ''Blackwater'' Series, first published in 1983. It takes place in Perdido, but in an alternative universe where the town grows into a thriving town between the 1920s and the 1970s.

References

Unincorporated communities in Baldwin County, Alabama Unincorporated communities in Alabama {{BaldwinCountyAL-geo-stub