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Alabama, United States
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Chickasaw, city, northern suburb of Mobile, Mobile county, southwestern Alabama, U.S. It lies on Chickasaw Creek, a tributary of the Mobile Bay delta region. Named for the Chickasaw people, it was founded during World War I as a shipbuilding community. Though now primarily residential, it still has fisheries and port facilities for exporting commodities from Birmingham. Inc. village, 1917; city, 1946. Pop. (2000) 6,364; (2010) 6,106.

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