Orange Beach, Silverhill sites being studied for housing southern border child refugees

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Posted 6/4/16

ORANGE BEACH, AL - The sites the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are assessing for housing unaccompanied children crossing into the United States on the southern boder are at Navy Outlying Field Wolf in Orange Beach and Navy Outlying …

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Orange Beach, Silverhill sites being studied for housing southern border child refugees

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ORANGE BEACH, AL - The sites the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are assessing for housing unaccompanied children crossing into the United States on the southern boder are at Navy Outlying Field Wolf in Orange Beach and Navy Outlying Field Silverhill in Silverhill.

The Orange Beach location is located directly north of the Caswell and Bear Point areas of the town on the north side of Bay La Launch closer to Josephine.

City limit maps of Orange Beach show the area where the airfield is abuts the city's northern limit.

According to the website Abandoned and Little Known Airfields: Alabama, about Wolf field says: This airfield was built as one of the large number of WW2-era satellite airfields used by NAS Pensacola. The date of construction of Wolf is unknown, but it was built prior to 1945. The earliest reference to the field which has been located was on the 1945 Mobile Sectional Chart.

The website gives the exact description of the Silverhill airfield. It is located south of County Road 54 and north of Alabama 104 and west of River Road South to the west of the town center.