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Chickasaw is a city in eastern Mobile County, bordered by Mobile to the east, Prichard to the south and west, and Saraland to the north, within the Mobile metropolitan area.

Chickasaw began as a company town wholly owned by the Chickasaw Shipyard and built for its workers; the Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation bought the property in 1940 and expanded it during the World War II defense buildup.

Chickasaw is the setting of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Marsh v. Alabama (1946), which held that even though the shipyard village was privately owned, because it functioned as a town open to the public, the company could not abridge the First Amendment rights of the people in it.

In 1946 the Leedy Investment Company bought the village, renovated its housing, and sold homes to the renters; the preserved company-town core was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as the Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District.

Chickasaw's shipyard launched warships such as the minesweeper USS Pivot on November 11, 1943, and the city's population peaked at 10,002 in 1960, when the yard was still operating at high capacity.

The 2020 census counted 6,457 residents in 2,589 households in Chickasaw — the city's first population increase since 1960, after decades of decline driven by shipyard job losses.

The Port of Chickasaw operates on Chickasaw Creek, a tidal arm of the Mobile River that forms the city's northeast border.

Chickasaw voters chose in 2012 to create their own school system, and Chickasaw City Schools separated from the Mobile County Public School System in 2013.

Ray Sawyer, vocalist of the band Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, was born in Chickasaw in 1937.

U.S. Route 43 runs through Chickasaw about 5 miles north of downtown Mobile, and Interstate 65 passes through the city's west side.