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Beaver Mills

Ghost town · Mobile County, Alabama

Creola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500)
Creola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Beaver Mills is a ghost town in Mobile County, Alabama, recorded as human settlement in Alabama, United States of America. It is the only former community in Mobile County recorded on the federal names register, out of 431 across Alabama.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Beaver Mills as a historical populated place: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 30.9697° N, 88.2347° W.

In old newspapers

The earliest digitized newspaper pages printed in Alabama before 1931 that mention “Beaver Mills”, from the Library of Congress. A page may use the name for something else; open it to read the context.

Key facts

Elevation100 ft
Nearest living townGulfcrest, AL
Distance to it1.5 miles
Coordinates30.96970, -88.23470

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Beaver Mills today, aerial view
Creola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500)

Left: Creola quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1941, 1:62,500), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Beaver Mills is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Gulfcrest, AL (population 105), about 1.5 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 100 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Sources and licences

Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.