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A map showing Perdido Bay and the Perdido River. Perdido Bay is a bay at the mouth of and draining the Perdido River, a designated Outstanding Florida Waters river, in Baldwin County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida, United States. It is essentially a coastal lagoon enclosed by barrier islands, with an inlet, Perdido Pass.
The Perdido Key Historic District, the site of three shore batteries built between 1890 and 1945 to protect the entrance to Pensacola Bay, is at the eastern end of the island. The western part of the island is mostly developed as a resort area, although the 290 acres (120 ha) and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of beach in the Perdido Key State Park are ...
Perdido Key Island is now about 16 miles (26 km) long with almost 60% of it (9.5 miles) protected in federal or state parks. [ 6 ] In 1978 the National Park Service completed purchase of over 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2 ) of land on Perdido Key from Johnson Beach to Pensacola Pass for about $8 million.
Pensacola Pass has been dredged since 1883 to maintain a channel into Pensacola Bay for United States Navy and other ships. The dredging has interrupted the natural transport of sand across the inlet from Santa Rosa Island to Perdido Key, with the result that Pensacola Pass is a net sediment sink.
Perdido Key was hit with flooding waters that flattened out some of the dunes along Perdido Key. Johnson Beach National Seashore, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore at the east end of the island, was hit particularly hard. Many of the dunes were flattened and the end of the island was gorged forming 3 small isolated islands off the tip. [2]
The federal disaster declaration, which doesn’t initially include Mecklenburg County, means federal help with home repairs and other problems caused by Helene.
Editor's Note: For the latest news on Helene, see our live coverage for Saturday, Sept. 28. Helene made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane about 11:10 p.m. ET near Perry, Florida, with 140 mph ...
Ivan was the most disastrous, making landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, with 120 mile-per-hour (193 km/h) winds and a 14-foot (4.3 m) storm surge that devastated Perdido Key and Santa Rosa Island, wrecked the Interstate 10 bridge across Escambia Bay, and destroyed thousands of homes in the region, some as far away as 20 miles (32 km) inland.