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Daphne (/ ˈ d æ f n iː /) is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, on the eastern shoreline of Mobile Bay. The city is located along I-10 , 11 miles east of Mobile and 170 miles southwest of the state capital of Montgomery .
Many local residents use this route as a north–south alternative to US 98 which runs parallel to it a few miles to the west. US 98 travels through the cities of Daphne and Fairhope while SR 181 travels through rural country. It has also become an alternative north–south route to SR 59 which runs parallel to it a few miles to the east.
This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Baldwin County, Alabama, highlighting Daphne in red. It was created with a custom script from US Census bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
The Mobile Metropolitan Area comprises Mobile in the southwest corner of Alabama in the United States. As of the 2020 census the metropolitan area had a population of 430,197. [1] The Mobile metropolitan area is the third-largest metropolitan area in the state of Alabama, after Birmingham and Huntsville.
Baldwin was Alabama's fastest-growing county from 2010 to 2020, with 4 of the top 10 fastest-growing cities in the state in recent years. [5] The U.S. federal government designates Baldwin County as the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metropolitan statistical area. It is the largest county in Alabama by area and is located on the eastern side of ...
I-10 is the primary east–west highway of the Gulf Coast region of Alabama. The highway connects Mobile, the largest city in South Alabama, with Pascagoula, Mississippi, to the west and Pensacola, Florida, to the east. Within the state, the highway connects Mobile and Mobile County with the Baldwin County communities of Daphne and Fairhope.
Shell Mound Park, along the island's northern shore, is administered by the Alabama Marine Resources Division. View of the southeastern shore of the island. In 1519, the Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda was the first documented European to visit, staying long enough to map the island with remarkable accuracy.
In Alabama, US 98 is paired with unsigned State Route 42 (SR 42). The route enters Alabama from the east near Lillian in rural Baldwin County. At Daphne, US 98 begins a concurrency with US 90. US 90 and 98 junction I-10 at Daphne on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay, then again on the western side of the bay as they enter downtown Mobile.