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'''St. Elmo''' is an unincorporated community in Mobile County, Alabama, United States.<ref name="GNIS">{{Cite GNIS|126090|Feature Detail Report for: Saint Elmo (Mobile County, Alabama)|January 8, 2013}}</ref> It is located approximately {{convert|7|mi|km}} due north of Bayou La Batre and the Mississippi Sound<ref name="HTL">{{cite web | title = St. Elmo, Alabama | work = Alabama Home Town Locator | url = https://alabama.hometownlocator.com/AL/Mobile/Saint-Elmo.cfm | accessdate = March 9, 2008}}</ref> and approximately 10 miles east of Grand Bay.
==Geography== St. Elmo is located at {{coord|30|30|13|N|088|15|15|W|display=inline}}. The elevation is {{convert|135|ft|m|0}}.<ref name="GNIS"/><ref name="HTL"/> 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,<ref>"[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.</ref> Hankins Middle School,<ref>"[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.</ref> and Theodore High School in Theodore.<ref>"[http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Theodore%20High%20School.pdf Theodore High School Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516152228/http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/MCPSS/MobileCounty/Departments/DocumentsCategories/Documents/Theodore%20High%20School.pdf |date=2017-05-16 }}." Mobile County Public School System. Retrieved on November 26, 2018.</ref>
'''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.
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{{Mobile County, Alabama}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Alabama Category:Unincorporated communities in Mobile County, Alabama