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Photograph of Isle Dauphine Club
Photograph by rossograph, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Isle Dauphine Club

Built in 1957 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The Isle Dauphine Club is a historic social club in Dauphin Island, Alabama. The club was developed by the Dauphin Island Property Owners Association, and came to encompass the main club building, a restaurant, swimming pool, tennis courts, and a golf course.”

Wikipedia article Isle Dauphine Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 146 National Register listings published here for Mobile County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1957, modern architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 100 Orleans Dr., Dauphin Island, 36528
  • When was it listed? January 2017
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Bayou La Batre
  • When was it built? 1957
  • Architectural style. modern architecture
  • National Register reference number. 16000815 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Isle Dauphine Club 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

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Isle Dauphine Club: 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 property

2 since 1995

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.

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

Map coverage status

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.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Dauphin Island School0.6 miles2018
Fort Gaines2.5 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000815 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mobile CountyAll 146 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.