Dauphin Island, Alabama
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bayou La Batre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36528. It lies near Little Dauphin Island. The Survey maps it on the Little Dauphin Island quadrangle. 1,778 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
On record in Dauphin Island
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Isle Dauphine Clublisted 2017- Dauphin Island Schoollisted 2018
Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records
- Fort Gaines, Bake Ovens, Dauphin Islandfederal building survey, 1 photograph
- Fort Gaines, Barracks, Dauphin Islandfederal building survey, 2 photographs
- Fort Gaines, Officers' Quarters & Barracks, Dauphin Islandfederal building survey, 4 photographs
- Fort Gaines, Pelican Point, Dauphin Islandfederal building survey, 8 photographs
- Fort Gaines, Smithy, Dauphin Islandfederal building survey, 1 photograph
Population over time
2 figuresDauphin Island grew from 1,238 to 1,778 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,238 | |
| 2020 | 1,778 | +540 (+44%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1921 USGS Delchamps quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Little Dauphin Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Biloxi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
6 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dauphin Island between 1992 and 2018, burning about 274 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 109 BIENVILLE BLVD., AL |
| 13 May 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 175 acres | Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge | LITTLEDAUP |
| 3 March 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 March 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge | LDISLAND95 |
| 5 January 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20180105-3 |
| 25 January 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dauphin Island: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Metal, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dauphine Island Offshore Sands | Titanium, Metal, Zirconium | Occurrence | Placer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dauphin Island in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dauphin Island | $500 | Several large limbs were blown down on Dauphin Island. Wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated by an off duty meteorologist. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Dauphin Island | - | Dime-size hail was reported along Daupin Island Parkway near Dauphin Island. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Gaines | 1.9 miles | 22 | |
| Heron Bay | 6.9 miles | 24 | |
| Alabama Port | 7.4 miles | 24 | |
| Delchamps | 10.2 miles | 24 | |
| Nelson | 10.7 miles | 24 | |
| Coden | 11.1 miles | 24 | |
| San Souci Beach | 12.1 miles | 22 | |
| Faustinas | 12.3 miles | 25 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Dauphin Island | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q932623 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117086. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.










