| Official Name: | Perdido, Alabama |
| Pushpin Map: | Alabama#USA |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Alabama |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Baldwin |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 28.92 |
| Area Land Km2: | 28.85 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.08 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 11.17 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 11.14 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.03 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 730 |
| Population Density Km2: | 25.31 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 65.54 |
| Timezone: | Central (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | -6 |
| Timezone Dst: | CDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
| Elevation Ft: | 220 |
| Coordinates: | 31.0078°N -87.6272°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 36562 |
| Area Code: | 251 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 152869 |
Perdido, also known as Perdido Station, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. Perdido is located along County Route 61, 12.2miles northeast of Bay Minette.[2] Perdido has a post office with ZIP code 36562.[3] It has an elementary school, Perdido School, which is part of the Baldwin County Board of Education.
The community had a population of 730 as of the 2020 census.
Perdido is named after the Perdido River.[4] A post office operated under the name Perdido Station from 1871 to 1923, and under the name Perdido from 1923 to present.[5]
Perdido is the setting of author and screenwriter Michael McDowell's Blackwater Series, first published in 1983. It takes place in Perdido, but in an alternative universe where the town grows and thrives into a major city between the 1920s and the 1970s.