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St. Elmo, Alabama

Unincorporated community in Alabama, United States

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name	St. Elmo, Alabama
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
pushpin_map	Alabama#USA
pushpin_label	St. Elmo
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subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Alabama
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Mobile
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	135
timezone	Central (CST)
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	-5
postal_code_type	ZIP code
postal_code	36568
area_code	251
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St. Elmo is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. It is located approximately 7 mi due north of Bayou La Batre and the Mississippi Sound and approximately 10 miles east of Grand Bay.

Geography

St. Elmo is located at . The elevation is 135 ft. Most of the town lies along U.S. Highway 90.

History

Originally a farming community, the town was served by the L&N Railroad which provided passenger and freight depots. The town derives its name from the book of the same name, authored by Augusta Evans Wilson.

It is rumored that Jesse James and his gang once hid out in St. Elmo after one of his robberies, assuming aliases while hiding out, but this has yet to be confirmed.

An airfield located just north of Highway 90, west of town was an outlying field of Brookley Air Force Base in Mobile. It was used for training flights during World War II. The airfield is now owned by the State of Alabama.

Education

Mobile County Public School System operates the following schools serving the area: St. Elmo Elementary School, Hankins Middle School, and Theodore High School in Theodore.

St. Elmo High School was one of only two exclusively African American high schools in Mobile County, prior to desegregation of the public schools in the area. African American elementary students attended the Grand Bay Elementary School for Colored, located west of town near Grand Bay. The high school was closed in 1970 when its students combined with the schools in Grand Bay. The St. Elmo school re-opened as an integrated public elementary school in 1987, and continues to operate today as St. Elmo Elementary School, under the Mobile County Public School System.

References

{{Cite GNIS. 126090. Feature Detail Report for: Saint Elmo (Mobile County, Alabama). January 8, 2013
"St. Elmo, Alabama". Alabama Home Town Locator.
"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Saint%20Elmo.pdf Saint Elmo Map]." [[Mobile County Public School System]]. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.
"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Hankins%20Middle.pdf Hankins Middle Map]." [[Mobile County Public School System]]. Retrieved on November 27, 2018.
"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Theodore%20High%20School.pdf Theodore High School Map] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-05-16 ." [[Mobile County Public School System]]. Retrieved on November 26, 2018.)

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