River
Mobile River
72 km from source to mouth · United States.
United StatesFlows into Mobile Bay
In numbers
Length
72km
Average flow
1,900m³/s
Basin
114,000km²
Drop
6m
from 6 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
72 km of river and 10 stops on the way: 4 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmTombigbee Riverat 6 m
- 4 kmTombigbee Rivertributary
- 4 kmAlabama Rivertributary
- 11 kmMount Vernon1,518 people
- 37 kmGeneral W.K. Wilson Jr. Bridge
- 66 kmCochrane–Africatown USA Bridge
- 66 kmMobile187,041 people
- 66 kmPlateau2,000 people
- 66 kmPrichard22,351 people
- 71 kmBankhead Tunnel
- 71 kmFort Charlotte
- 72 kmMobile Bayat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Alabama, United States
At the mouth it carries 1,900 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.3 seconds. Its basin covers 114,000 km², about the size of BJ. 4.4 million people live in it. Highest water: from February to April. Dams and reservoirs hold back a large share of its water (14% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- MobileLargest city on its banks · 187,041 people
- Mobile Regional Airport (MOB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 19 km from the cityCar hire at MOB airport (Mobile)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water18 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- April and from October to NovemberThe best months to visit
Mobile River, month by month
Highest water: from February to April
Best months to visit: April and from October to November.
From about 630 m³/s in the lowest month to 4,400 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Mobile River: the basin in numbers
112,528 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.4millionpeople live in the basin
- 40/km²people per km²
- 160maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,439mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.6°Caverage air temperature
- 1%protected areas
- 0.8%covered by lakes
- 9.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 80% Forest
- 11% Cropland
- 6% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Mobile River: what you find on the way
- 12Boat rampsMt. Vernon Waterfront Park Boat Ramp, Cedar Creek Landing, Liz's Launch and 9 more
- 6Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Mobile River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
2islands off the mouthIslandyas
Islands off the mouth (2)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Gaillard Island19 km away
- Mon Louis Island21 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Mobile River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Nearby
Rivers nearby
United States640 km950 m³/s51 km awayMississippi RiverUnited States3,766 km12,700 m³/s211 km awayChattahoocheeUnited States702 km290 m³/s303 km awayApalachicola RiverUnited States180 km470 m³/s311 km awayRed RiverUnited States2,189 km1,900 m³/s352 km awayFlint RiverUnited States240 km640 m³/s303 km awayAtchafalaya RiverUnited States270 km240 m³/s328 km awayArkansas RiverUnited States2,364 km240 m³/s449 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1084490) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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