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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Mobile
- Named after
- King Louis XV
- Total
- 165.95 sq mi (429.81 km )
- Land
- 6.25 sq mi (16.20 km )
- Water
- 159.70 sq mi (413.61 km )
- Elevation
- 0 ft (0 m)
- Density
- 284.2/sq mi (109.72/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central Standard Time (CST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 (Central Daylight Time (CDT))
- Fips code
- 01-19744
- Website
- www .townofdauphinisland .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Home | Town of Dauphin Island | Coastal Alabama
Dauphin Island, an affordable family-friendly beach vacation destination, offers an authentic taste of the beautiful Gulf Coast. You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced the approaching dusk of day from any point on the island.
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Dauphin of France
- Official name
- Dauphin Island
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mobile County
- Population
- 1778
- Area
- 429.810476
- Elevation
- 7
- Body of water
- Gulf of Mexico
- Official website
- www.townofdauphinisland.org
- Image
- Dauphin Island 06May2010 01.JPG
- Households
- 679
- Dialing code
- 251
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- Commons category
- Dauphin Island, Alabama
- postal code
- 36528
- inception
- 1702-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 96.1748
- water area
- 413.369366
- per capita income
- 45999
- mean age
- 60.4
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Encyclopedic overview
Dauphin Island (French: Île du Dauphine), is an island town in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, on a barrier island of the same name in the Gulf of Mexico. It was incorporated in 1988. The population was 1,778 at the 2020 census, up from 1,238 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Mobile metropolitan area. The island (originally named Massacre Island) was renamed for the king Louis XIV's great-grandson and heir, the dauphin, the future king Louis XV. The name of the island is often mistaken as Dolphin Island; the word dauphin is French for 'dolphin', but historically the term was used as the title of the heir apparent to the French monarch.
The island is one of the Mississippi–Alabama barrier islands, with the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and the Mississippi Sound and Mobile Bay to the north. The island's eastern end helps define the mouth of Mobile Bay. The eastern, wider portion of the island is shaded by thick stands of pine trees and saw palmettos, but the narrow, western part of the island features scrub growth and few trees.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dauphin Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.