Bon Secour, Alabama
Bon Secour, Alabama | |
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Looking west over Bon Secour Bay | |
Location of Bon Secour in Baldwin County, Alabama. | |
| Coordinates: 30°19′20″N 87°43′38″W / 30.32222°N 87.72722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Baldwin |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.65 sq mi (12.05 km2) |
| • Land | 4.32 sq mi (11.19 km2) |
| • Water | 0.33 sq mi (0.86 km2) |
| Elevation | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 1,754 |
| • Density | 406.0/sq mi (156.74/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 36511 |
| Area code | 251 |
| FIPS code | 01-08272 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2633314 |
Bon Secour /bɑːn səˈkjuːr/ is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It lies along the eastern coastline of Bon Secour Bay (a contiguous bay that sits along the eastern edge of Mobile Bay). Bon Secour is over 35 miles (56 km) due east of the Alabama–Mississippi state line, near Gulf Shores, and over 45 miles (72 km) west of Pensacola, Florida. The name "Bon Secour" derives from the French phrase meaning "safe harbor" due to the secluded location on the inside coast of the Fort Morgan peninsula of southern Alabama.
Bon Secour lies on the Bon Secour River. Elevation is 10 feet (3.0 m) above sea level. The estuarial river system empties into Bon Secour Bay at Mobile Bay.
It is part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area.
As of the 2020 census, Bon Secour had a population of 1,754.
It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 Census.
Bon Secour is sometimes mentioned in hurricane report statistics, for the region, since Bon Secour is the easternmost town inside the coastline of Mobile Bay when entering the bay from the south, indicating weather and tide conditions for the population at the southeast end of Mobile Bay, nearest the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico. By contrast, Mobile, Alabama is located near the (diagonally opposite) north end of Mobile Bay, much farther from the Gulf tide and hurricane storm surges.