Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 7594
Land area (2000): 10.399091 sq. miles (26.933521 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.989568 sq. miles (2.562970 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.388659 sq. miles (29.496491 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57144
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.291503 N, 87.561985 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36561
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Orange Beach
Usage examples of "orange beach".
About forty people, the various location crews, came and went from the vehicles parked close behind the dunes, and out on the wet expanse of firm sand left clean and unmarked by the ebbing tide, Moncrieff worked on the cameras, lights, and gantry that had been taken out there bolted onto a caterpillar-tracked orange beach-cleaning monster that could bulldoze wrecks if need be.
He was gray-haired and professorial, with tortoiseshell eyeglasses, but he was dressed in a turquoise and orange beach shirt pattered with palm trees and hula girls and an oversized pair of safari shorts.
Only small waves lapped at the shore, depositing minute quantities of sand, etching out microscopic gullies in the orange beach as they dragged away a corresponding amount of other grains.