Suburban Baldwin County, along the Gulf Coast, is the largest county in Alabama in both land area and water area.

Alabama has a coastline along the Gulf of Mexico on the extreme southern edge of the state.

Alabama is part of the subtropical coniferous forest biome.

North Alabama is mostly mountainous, with the Tennessee River creating numerous creeks, streams, rivers, mountains, and lakes.

Alabama has four National Forests: Conecuh, Talladega, Tuskegee, and William B. Bankhead.

Baldwin and Mobile counties became part of Spanish West Florida in 1783, part of the independent Republic of West Florida in 1810, and finally part of the Mississippi Territory in 1812.

Alabama has 93 reptile species.

The French controlled Alabama from 1702 to 1763 as part of La Louisiane. After the French lost to the British in the Seven Years’ War, it became part of British West Florida from 1763 to 1783. Following the American ...Read more

Of the 383 mollusk species, 113 have never been collected outside of Alabama.