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If a port is used in the field of networks, it is an extension to an IP address. If an IP address is like a telephone number through which you can connect to a computer, just like you can reach a person by calling a number, a port is like an extension number.

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Bridgeport, Alabama:
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Total households 1159, total housing units: 1290
Land area: 3.116249 square miles, water area 0.129035 miles
Latitude: NORTH 34.947303, longitude: EAST -85.71896 MAP
Population:2728, male 1294 female 1434
Races in Bridgeport, Alabama:

White/Non-Hispanic (86.77%)
Black (8.03%)
Hispanic (1.32%)
Asian (0.11%): Asian-Other(0.11%)

Millport town, Alabama:
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Total households 495, total housing units: 561
Land area: 5.429029 square miles, water area 0.013646 miles
Latitude: NORTH 33.560275, longitude: EAST -88.08026 MAP
Population:1160, male 536 female 624
Races in Millport town, Alabama:

White/Non-Hispanic (64.48%)
Black (33.97%)
Hispanic (1.03%):

Northport, Alabama:
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Total households 7844, total housing units: 8509
Land area: 14.631557 square miles, water area 0.216487 miles
Latitude: NORTH 33.253917, longitude: EAST -87.59235 MAP
Population:19435, male 8867 female 10568
Races in Northport, Alabama:

White/Non-Hispanic (70.47%)
Black (26.03%)
Hispanic (1.92%)
Asian (0.80%): Asian-Other(0.31%) Korean(0.21%) Chinese(0.21%) Japanese(0.07%)
Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (0.15%)

Portage Creek CDP, Alaska:
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Total households 7, total housing units: 22
Land area: 13.123306 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 58.906088, longitude: WEST 157.71675 MAP
Population:36, male 19 female 17
Races in Portage Creek CDP, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (13.89%):

Port Alexander, Alaska:
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Total households 34, total housing units: 79
Land area: 3.772707 square miles, water area 11.273418 miles
Latitude: NORTH 56.239871, longitude: WEST 134.65717 MAP
Population:81, male 43 female 38
Races in Port Alexander, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (79.01%)
Hispanic (4.94%):

Port Alsworth CDP, Alaska:
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Total households 34, total housing units: 70
Land area: 22.687690 square miles, water area 0.137466 miles
Latitude: NORTH 60.208281, longitude: WEST 154.30658 MAP
Population:104, male 48 female 56
Races in Port Alsworth CDP, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (77.88%):

Port Clarence CDP, Alaska:
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Total households 0, total housing units: 0
Land area: 35.461901 square miles, water area 0.997833 miles
Latitude: NORTH 65.265974, longitude: WEST 166.85276 MAP
Population:21, male 20 female 1
Races in Port Clarence CDP, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (85.71%)
Black (4.76%)
Hispanic (4.76%):

Port Graham CDP, Alaska:
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Total households 70, total housing units: 82
Land area: 5.928288 square miles, water area 0.000000 miles
Latitude: NORTH 59.347736, longitude: WEST 151.83342 MAP
Population:171, male 91 female 80
Races in Port Graham CDP, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (11.11%)
Hispanic (3.51%):

Port Heiden, Alaska:
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Total households 41, total housing units: 56
Land area: 50.696412 square miles, water area 0.659500 miles
Latitude: NORTH 56.948949, longitude: WEST 158.65574 MAP
Population:119, male 61 female 58
Races in Port Heiden, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (19.33%)
Hispanic (2.52%):

Port Lions, Alaska:
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Total households 89, total housing units: 106
Land area: 6.347166 square miles, water area 3.715683 miles
Latitude: NORTH 57.868070, longitude: WEST 152.88004 MAP
Population:256, male 136 female 120
Races in Port Lions, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (33.98%)
Hispanic (1.95%):

Port Protection CDP, Alaska:
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Total households 31, total housing units: 52
Land area: 4.469894 square miles, water area 0.121048 miles
Latitude: NORTH 56.322078, longitude: WEST 133.60670 MAP
Population:63, male 38 female 25
Races in Port Protection CDP, Alaska:

White/Non-Hispanic (82.54%)
Hispanic (4.76%)
Asian (1.59%): Asian-Other(1.59%)

Portage Creek ANVSA, AK:
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Total households 7, total housing units: 22
Population:36, male 19 female 17
Races in Portage Creek ANVSA, AK:

White/Non-Hispanic (13.89%):

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Webster Unabridged

Port (?), n. [From Oporto, in Portugal, i. e., &?; porto the port, L. portus. See Port harbor.] A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.

Port, n. [AS. port, L. portus: cf. F. port. See Farm, v., Ford, and 1st, 3d, & 4h Port.] 1. A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.

Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads.

Shak.

We are in port if we have Thee.

Keble.

2. In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.

Free port. See under Free. -- Port bar. (Naut,) (a) A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3. (b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port. -- Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor. -- Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise. -- Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port. -- Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

Port (?), n. [F. porte, L. porta, akin to portus; cf. AS. porte, fr. L. porta. See Port a harbor, and cf. Porte.] 1. A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. [Archaic]

Him I accuse
The city ports by this hath entered.

Shak.

Form their ivory port the cherubim
Forth issuing.

Milton.

2. (Naut.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.

Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water.

Sir W. Raleigh.

3. (Mach.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.

Air port, Bridle port, etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc. -- Port bar (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale. -- Port lid (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel. -- Steam port, ∧ Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.

Port, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ported; p. pr. & vb. n. Porting.] [F. porter, L. portare to carry. See Port demeanor.] 1. To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.]

They are easily ported by boat into other shires.

Fuller.

2. (Mil.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.

Began to hem him round with ported spears.

Milton.

Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.

Port, n. [F. port, fr. porter to carry, L. portare, prob. akin to E. fare, v. See Port harbor, and cf. Comport, Export, Sport.] The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. Spenser.

And of his port as meek as is a maid.

Chaucer.

The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world.

South.

Port, n. [Etymology uncertain.] (Naut.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.

Port, v. t. (Naut.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.

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