After being transferred to the town of Blakeley in 1810, the county seat was later moved to the city of Daphne in 1868.

The citizens of Bay Minette moved the county records from Daphne in the middle of the night on October 11–12, 1901[3] and delivered them to the city of Bay Minette, where the Baldwin County seat remains to this day.

[4] A mural for the new post office built in 1937 was commissioned by the WPA and painted by Hilton Leech to commemorate this event.

[3] In September 2011, the town attempted to enact a program called "Operation Restore Our Community".

It would have allowed those convicted of a misdemeanor to substitute imprisonment with mandatory church attendance for one year.

Bay Minette is located near the center of Baldwin County in southern Alabama.

[2] The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 8,107 people, 2,812 households, and 1,690 families residing in the city.

[14] Bay Minette is a part of the Baldwin County Public Schools system.