

The Spaniards were armed with guns and killed many of the tribe. In 1540 he arranged an ambush of soldiers of Hernando de Soto's expedition in an effort to expel them from the territory. The only such port in Alabama, it has long been integral to the economy for providing access to inland waterways as well as the Gulf of Mexico.The city, river, and county were named in honor of Maubila, a village of the paramount chief Tuskaloosa of the regional Mississippian culture. Its county seat is Mobile, which was founded as a deepwater port on the Mobile River. As of the 2020 census, its population was 414,809. It is the second most-populous county in the state after Jefferson County. Mobile County ( moh-BEEL) is located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. Elmo, Tanner Williams, Theodore, Tillmans Corner, Toulminville, Union Church, Washington County, Whistler, Wilmer Some of the cities, towns, and places in Mobile County are Alabama Port, Axis, Bayou La Batre, Beaver Mills, Belle Fontaine, Bucks, Calvert, Chickasaw, Chunchula, Citronelle, Cloverdale, Coden, Crawford, Creola, Dauphin Island, Eight Mile, Fernland, Grand Bay, Gulfcrest, Heron Bay, Irvington, Kushla, Le Moyne, Lloyds, Mauvilla, Mobile, Mon Louis, Mount Vernon, Movico, Pennsylvania, Prichard, Saraland, Satsuma, Semmes, St. Notes:Mobile County does not provide mugshot images.
