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Perdido Beach is a town located on the northern shore of Perdido Bay, between the mouths of Soldier Creek and Palmetto Creek in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. In an April 2009 plebiscite, over 60% of local voters supported incorporation as a town. [ 2 ]
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.
Perdido Pass, separating Alabama Point from Florida Point, is the mouth of the Perdido River.Perdido Pass forms a water passage that connects Perdido Bay with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, in the U.S. state of Alabama, 2 miles (3 km) west of the Alabama/Florida state line.
Perdido Key was part of the mainland of Florida until the middle of the 20th century. Perdido Key probably developed in place by aggradation of offshore shoals consisting of quartz sand that is likely reworked from Pleistocene delta and shallow marine deposits. Perdido Key was shorter east to west for most of the 19th century than it is now.
Perdido Key is an unincorporated community located in Escambia County, Florida, United States, between the cities of Pensacola, Florida and Orange Beach, Alabama. [1] The community is located on and named for Perdido Key , a barrier island in northwest Florida and southeast Alabama.
Perdido Key State Park is a 247-acre (1.00 km 2) Florida State Park located on a barrier island fifteen miles (24 km) southwest of Pensacola, off S.R. 292, in northwestern Florida. The address is 12301 Gulf Beach Highway.
Perdido, also known as Perdido Station, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. Perdido is located along County Route 61, 12.2 miles (19.6 km) northeast of Bay Minette . [ 3 ]
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]