Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
“The Dauphin Island School is a historic former school building on Dauphin Island, Alabama. The school was built in 1931 to replace a one-room schoolhouse that was built in 1898 and burned in 1929.”
Wikipedia article Dauphin Island School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dauphin Island School 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 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dauphin Island School: 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 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dauphin Island, the town this property stands in, 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. |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Isle Dauphine Club | 0.6 miles | 2017 |
 | Fort Gaines | 2.4 miles | 1976 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001878 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Mobile County | All 146 listed properties in this county. |
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