NOAA S-57 chart cell

Approaches to Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound and Gulf of America

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Usage band
Coastal · code 3
Current edition
1.0
Features
1,310
S-57 layers
35
Published
Dec 19, 2025
Manifest updated
Jun 22, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC

Coverage

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North
30.00000° N
South
28.80000° N
West
88.80000° W
East
87.60000° W
Center
29.40000° N, 88.20000° W
Bounds area
4,522 sq nm
Feature density
0.2897 / sq nm

Chart Statistics

20 largest layers shown

Average features per layer
37.4
Smallest layer
1
Largest layer
818
Area sq km
15,511
Features per sq km
0.08445
  1. PIPSOL 818
  2. OBSTRN Obstruction 96
  3. OFSPLF 85
  4. SBDARE Seabed area 80
  5. DEPCNT Depth contour 37
  6. DEPARE Depth area 33
  7. SOUNDG Sounding 30
  8. BOYSPP Special purpose buoy 28
  9. LIGHTS Light 24
  10. WRECKS Wreck 23
  11. M_QUAL Data quality 19
  12. MAGVAR Magnetic variation 4
  13. FAIRWY Fairway 3
  14. LNDARE Land area 3
  15. LNDMRK 3
  16. TESARE 3
  17. DMPGRD 2
  18. RESARE 2
  19. ADMARE 1
  20. BCNSPP Special purpose beacon 1

Nearby Chart Cells

Coastal usage band

Current Edition Files

The NOAA ZIP archive is the upstream source for this chart cell; the other files are Open Ships generated derivatives for web and GIS use.

Editions

Edition Published Metadata
1.0 Dec 19, 2025 metadata.json