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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.

Dauphin Island within Mobile County

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dauphin 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,238
20201,778+540 (+44%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 printed sheets

Matched 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.

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.

Fort Gaines, Pelican Point, Dauphin Island, Mobile County, AL
Fort Gaines, Pelican Point, Dauphin Island, Mobile County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fort Gaines, Officers' Quarters & Barracks, Dauphin Island, Mobile County, AL
Fort Gaines, Officers' Quarters & Barracks, Dauphin Island, Mobile County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

6 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 August 2011Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission109 BIENVILLE BLVD., AL
13 May 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined175 acresBon Secour National Wildlife RefugeLITTLEDAUP
3 March 2006Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 March 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresBon Secour National Wildlife RefugeLDISLAND95
5 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180105-3
25 January 2006Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dauphine Island Offshore SandsTitanium, Metal, ZirconiumOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1995Thunderstorm WindDauphin Island$500Several large limbs were blown down on Dauphin Island. Wind gusts to 60 mph were estimated by an off duty meteorologist.
May 1995HailDauphin Island-Dime-size hail was reported along Daupin Island Parkway near Dauphin Island.

Every storm recorded in Mobile County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Fort Gaines1.9 miles22
Heron Bay6.9 miles24
Alabama Port7.4 miles24
Delchamps10.2 miles24
Nelson10.7 miles24
Coden11.1 miles24
San Souci Beach12.1 miles22
Faustinas12.3 miles25

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 IslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q932623The 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.