Welcome to Dolphin ...

Dolphin is located in the Bootheel of Missouri.

Dolphin is located in Pemiscot County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dolphin, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906.

Time Zone: Dolphin lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Dolphin: 573 & 235<2>

Communities Also Named Dolphin ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Dolphin - they are located in New Jersey, Virginia and Washington.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dolphin.

Adding Dolphin to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Dolphin in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Dolphin was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Dolphin post office opened in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dolphin.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Pemiscot, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Dolphin area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Dolphin area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/