Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1441
Land area (2000): 8.662265 sq. miles (22.435163 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033089 sq. miles (0.085699 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.695354 sq. miles (22.520862 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31024
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.474055 N, 88.341836 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36541
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Grand Bay
Wikipedia
Grand Bay is the name of more than one place:
Communities- Grand Bay, Alabama, United States
- Grand Bay, Dominica (officially known as Berekua)
- Grand Bay, Grenada, a village in Carriacou island.
- Grand Bay, Mauritius
- Grand Bay–Westfield, New Brunswick, Canada
- Grand Bay (Georgia), a swamp in the United States
Canada
- Grand Bay (New Brunswick)
- Grand Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador)
Grand Bay ( NST) is a small bay immediately to the west of Channel-Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, Canada. Two communities line the bay, on the east is Grand Bay East and on the west, Grand Bay West.
Grand Bay first appeared on Captain James Cook's 1766 chart of the south coast of Newfoundland. It was the landing place for Micmac and French groups who crossed the Cabot Strait in the early 18th century in contravention of the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713).
Kettle and Lomond were common surnames among the settlers in the Grand Bay area; among them is Wilson Kettle who was entered in the Guinness World Records as having the largest number of living descendants.
Grand Bay is a swamp located in Lanier County and Lowndes County, Georgia. It consists of Grand Bay Wetlands Management Area, an educational wildlife area, and Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge, a recreational and educational lake.
Usage examples of "grand bay".
He took her to his room at the Grand Bay Hotel and asked her to wait while he ran the water in the Roman tub.
To boost his spirits, Thomas Curl splurged and got a room at the Grand Bay Hotel.
Sliding onto the leather seat beside me, he gave the driver the address of Grand Bay Hotel in Coconut Grove.