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Country
  
United States

County
  
Mobile

GNIS ID
  
126090

Zip code
  
36568

Area code
  
251

State
  
Alabama

Time zone
  
Central (CST) (UTC-6)

Elevation
  
41 m

Local time
  
Friday 11:26 AM

Number of airports
  
1

St. Elmo, Alabama

Weather
  
23°C, Wind NW at 11 km/h, 49% Humidity

St. Elmo is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is located approximately seven miles due north of Bayou La Batre and the Mississippi Sound and approximately 10 miles east of Grand Bay.

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Map of St Elmo, AL 36544, USA

Geography

St. Elmo is located at 30°30′13″N 088°15′15″W. The elevation is 135 feet (41 m). Most of the town lies along U.S. Highway 90.

History

Originally a farming community, the town was served by the L&N Railroad which provided passenger and freight depots. The town derives its name from the book of the same name, authored by Augusta Evans Wilson.

It is rumored that Jesse James and his gang once hid out in St. Elmo after one of his robberies, assuming aliases while hiding out, but this has yet to be confirmed.

An airfield located just north of Highway 90, west of town was an outlying field of Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile. It was used for training flights during World War II. The airfield is now owned by the State of Alabama.

St. Elmo High School was one of only two exclusively African American high schools in Mobile County, prior to desegregation of the public schools in the area. African American elementary students attended the Grand Bay Elementary School for Colored, located west of town near Grand Bay. The high school was closed in 1970 when its students combined with the schools in Grand Bay. The St. Elmo school re-opened as an integrated public elementary school in 1987, and continues to operate today as St. Elmo Elementary School, under the Mobile County Public School System.

References

St. Elmo, Alabama Wikipedia


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