Prichard is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 19,322, down from 22,659 at the 2010 census. It is a ration of the Mobile metropolitan area. Prichard borders the north side of Mobile, as with ease as the Mobile suburbs of Chickasaw, Saraland, and the unincorporated sections of Eight Mile.

Prichard began as a unity in the 1830s, bordering Telegraph Road (known now as U.S. Highway 43). It remained largely unsettled until after the American Civil War. The Clotilda, an illegal slave ship, had arrived at Mobile Bay in July 1860 carrying 110 Africans purchased in Ouidah, Kingdom of Dahomey, on behalf of Mobile shipbuilders and merchants. It was towed into the delta north of the city, burned, and sunk to break out capture. The Africans were taken upriver by a steamboat and landed near Magazine Point. They were distributed along with the investors in the voyage.

After the war, some 32 of the Africans returned there, developing Africatown as their own community. The Plateau/Magazine area was developed along Telegraph Road. Eventually, Plateau and Magazine had their territory split amongst Mobile and Prichard. The Africatown Historic District, considered allowance of Mobile, was further to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

After 1900, Prichard began a slow, steady development. Major industries partnered to shipbuilding and paper mills began to fabricate along the waterfront, and some workers granted in Prichard.