Fowl River

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Fowl River

| image = File:Bellingrath Gardens and Home 2018 Fowl River.jpg

| image_size =

| image_caption = Fowl River at Bellingrath Gardens and Home

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = United States

| subdivision_type2 = State

| subdivision_name2 = Alabama

| subdivision_type3 = County

| subdivision_name3 = Mobile County

| source1_location =

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|30.55602|-88.23528}}

| mouth_location = {{coord|30.45013|-88.10872}} (East Fowl River)
{{coord|30.36414|-88.18775}} (West Fowl River)

| length =

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| mouth_elevation = {{convert|0|m|ft|abbr=on}}

| discharge1_avg =

| basin_size = Mississippi Coastal

}}

Fowl River is a {{convert|14.4|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}{{cite web|url=http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |title=The National Map |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey |access-date=Feb 23, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |archive-date=2012-03-29 }} brackish river in Mobile County, Alabama. It originates near the Mobile suburb of Theodore and then splits into the East Fowl River and the West Fowl River. The East Fowl River discharges into Mobile Bay south of Belle Fontaine.{{Gnis|117768|East Fowl River}} The West Fowl River discharges into the Mississippi Sound east of Coden.{{Gnis|128778|West Fowl River}} It was named by the original French colonists as the Riviere aux Poules, which can be translated into English as Fowl River.{{Gnis|155071|Fowl River}}

The famed Irish pirate Paddy Scott would regularly enter and leave the river.{{cite web |last1=Keyes |first1=Pam |title=Fowl River |url=https://www.historiaobscura.com/tag/fowl-river/ |publisher=Historia Obscura |access-date=21 September 2018}}

Fowl River is part of a drowned river valley estuary 31 miles long and 23 miles wide, encompassing over 250,000 square acres, or 413 square miles. This shallow estuary, with average depths of less than 10 feet, provides a vast transition area between the freshwater wetlands of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta to the north and the marine environments of the Gulf of Mexico to the south.