Baker County, Florida

51 topographic sheets cover 19 settlements here, and 4 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

4 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Florida within the United States

Baker County within Florida

What the record shows

219 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
4 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 2 buildings, 1 district and 1 site.
2 of the 4 listings were added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 19 populated places in this county; 19 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Burnsed Blockhouse	building	1973	73000567
Glen Saint Mary Nurseries Company	district	2003	03001111
Old Baker County Courthouse	building	1986	86001729
Olustee Battlefield	site	1970	70000177

Photographs from libraries nationwide

1 of 3 shown

Selected from the Digital Public Library of America's 3 image records catalogued for this county. Every one shown here carries a public-domain status or a licence that permits reuse on a site that carries advertising; non-commercial, share-alike and restricted images are excluded. The selection is spread across the county's towns (at most eight per town), so no single institution's bulk upload crowds out the rest. Each opens the holding library's record, and the complete set at the Digital Public Library of America is one click away.

Green Hills Motel, Green Hills, Fla., Boston Public Library - undated — Green Hills Motel, Green Hills, Fla.. Boston Public Library, via the Digital Public Library of America.

The county from the air

40 shown

Flown by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1937 and 1989, the Aerial Photo Single Frames collection is the definitive mid-century view of the land: fields, roads and rivers as the camera saw them. The Survey holds 679 frames inside the rectangle that bounds this county; the 40 frames below were taken over the county itself, chosen across the decades of flights (at most four a year from that rectangle), so one flight cannot crowd out the rest. The full set is free to browse and download at EarthExplorer under the dataset Aerial Photo Single Frames.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1950-10-12, scale 1:59000 — 1950-10-12, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1951-01-16, scale 1:59000 — 1951-01-16, scale 1:59000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1964-02-12, scale 1:24000 — 1964-02-12, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1965-01-19, scale 1:24000 — 1965-01-19, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1966-03-06, scale 1:24000 — 1966-03-06, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1970-01-08, scale 1:20500 — 1970-01-08, scale 1:20500. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1974-05-09, scale 1:24248 — 1974-05-09, scale 1:24248. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1977-11-13, scale 1:80000 — 1977-11-13, scale 1:80000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1952-03-29, scale 1:23600 — 1952-03-29, scale 1:23600. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph, 1963-03-08, scale 1:24000 — 1963-03-08, scale 1:24000. U.S. Geological Survey aerial photograph.

Weather records

9 stations, 7 gages

The thermometers that kept this county's weather, and the gages that measured the flow of its streams, as the federal records hold them. The extremes below are measured values from those records, not estimates.

GLEN ST MARY 1 W 1919 to 2026, hottest 40.0 C, coldest -20.0 C
OLUSTEE 1941 to 1943
OLUSTEE FLORIDA 2003 to 2026, hottest 40.0 C, coldest -60.0 C
MACCLENNY 2.5 S 2007 to 2018
SANDERSON 4.9 NNW 2008 to 2026
GLEN ST. MARY 6.6 NW 2008 to 2012
GLEN ST. MARY 1.7 N 2009 to 2026
GLEN ST. MARY 4.4 SW 2010 to 2026
MACCLENNY 4.9 SSW 2010 to 2026

NORTH PRONG ST. MARYS RIVER AT MONIAC, GA 1921 to 2026
ST. MARYS RIVER NEAR MACCLENNY, FL 1926 to 2026
SOUTH PRONG ST. MARYS RIVER AT GLEN ST. MARY, FL 1950 to 1971
MIDDLE PRONG ST MARYS RIVER AT TAYLOR, FL 1955 to 2001
SOUTH PRONG ST. MARYS RIVER NR SANDERSON, FLA. 1955 to 1960
TURKEY CREEK AT MACCLENNY, FLA. 1955 to 1977
MIDDLE PRONG ST. MARYS RIVER NEAR TAYLOR, FL 1997 to 2002

The 1950 census, district by district

8 districts

Who lived here in 1950, one enumeration district at a time, as the Census Bureau described each district. Each row opens its official National Archives result, with Population Schedules and ED Maps available there.

2-1Commissioner's District 1 - Macclenny town. comprising parts of Commissioner's Districts 2 and 3:
2-2Macclenny town - That part in Commissioner's District 3
2-3Macclenny town - That part in Commissioner's District 2
2-4Commissioner's District 3 - That part outside Macclenny town (Remainder of Commissioner's District 3 is in Macclenny town)
2-5Commissioner's District 2 - That part outside Macclenny town (Remainder of Commissioner's District 2 is in Macclenny town)
2-6Commissioner's District 4 - That part north of Georgia Southern and Florida Railway and northeast of State Hwy. 125
2-7Commissioner's District 4 - That part south of Georgia Southern and Florida Railway and southwest of State Hwy. 125
2-8Commissioner's District 5

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

1,431 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 1,431 of them, burning about 413,757 acres. 356 started naturally and 189 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	356
Equipment and vehicle use	328
Debris and open burning	206
Arson/incendiarism	189
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	125
Railroad operations and maintenance	122
Misuse of fire by a minor	36
Power generation/transmission/distribution	29
Recreation and ceremony	25
Smoking	13
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 April 2017	Natural	152,515 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	WEST MIMS
8 May 2007	Natural	123,014 acres	National Forests in Florida	FLORIDA BUGABOO
21 May 1999	Natural	69,060 acres	National Forests in Florida	FRIENDLY
5 April 2012	Natural	34,936 acres	National Forests in Florida	COUNTYLINE
2 September 2011	Natural	3,810 acres	National Forests in Florida	OCEAN BAY
28 May 2006	Natural	3,259 acres	National Forests in Florida	277
26 May 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,820 acres	National Forests in Florida	ROAD 1
20 April 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2,000 acres	National Forests in Florida	CYPRESS CREEK

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1961 to 2025

60 of 263 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 263 reports for this county, causing no deaths, 7 injuries and about $1,624,470 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Thunderstorm Wind	147
Hail	39
Heavy Rain	36
Tornado	12
Flood	12
Flash Flood	6
Wildfire	4
Lightning	4
Funnel Cloud	3

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2015	Lightning	Macclenny	2 hurt	A lightning strike in Macclenny injured two. A structure fire was also caused. The cost of damage was unknown.
May 1974	Tornado (F2)	not stated	1 hurt, $250,000	no account filed
May 2022	Lightning	Macclenny	1 hurt	A person was struck by lightning north of Macclenny. The person was alert when medics arrived.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	1 hurt	Winds blew down trees and power lines, which injured one person SSE of Macclenny.
March 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Taylor	1 hurt	A tornado, which was spanned by the same from mesocyclone which moved through Lake City earlier in the day, moved through northeastern Baker County. One brick residence was completely destroyed at 11456 O. C. Horne Road, in Sanderson and a second residence at 20192 Golden Grass Farms Road had tin roof blown. The tornado continued toward the St Marys River but lifted prior to reaching the river. An additional touchdown occurred in Charlton County, Georgia.
July 1999	Lightning	Sanderson	1 hurt	no account filed
October 1996	Flash Flood	Macclenny	$600,000	no account filed
June 2012	Flood	Taylor	$500,000	Record flooding occurred in Baker county with a historic crest on the St. Marys River due to persistent heavy rainfall over NE Florida and SE Georgia in the river's upstream charge basin. Radar estimated that 15 to 25 inches fell in the charge basin over several days. On 6/25 at 9:32 pm, a spotter reported 3.46 inches of rainfall in the past 5 hours at a location 3 miles ESE of Sanderson. Ditches were at capacity in the area at the time of the report. At 10:25 pm that evening, the media reported 4.08 inches of rainfall since 5 pm that afternoon in Glen St. Mary. Water was crossing roads west of Glen St. Mary. At 10:30 pm, the media reported Interstate 10 eastbound at mile marker 317 near Sanderson was closed due to flooding. At 10:44 pm, Interstate 10 westbound at mile marker 324 near Glen St. Mary was closed due to flooding per a media report. Flooding continued through the end of the month. On 6/28 significant river flooding ensured on the St. Marys with numerous mobile homes flooded and a total loss. Other homes were also flooded. At 10:50 am, baker county emergency management reported a bridge floating down the St. Marys River. At 1:06 pm, the State Road 121 bridge was flooded by the St. Marys River and was closed. The County Road 127 bridge over Cedar Creek collapsed. The cost of property loss was estimated and is likely greatly under-estimated.
January 1994	Tornado (F0)	S of Macclenny	$50,000	Several houses were damaged and tops of 60 foot pine trees were twisted off along a two mile path.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$25,000	Mobile home destroyed
May 1983	Tornado (F1)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
March 1976	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$25,000	no account filed
November 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Sapp	$15,000	A convergent track of tree damage occurred from Boyce Road to Steed Road in Glen St. Mary. Several trees were snapped and uprooted, and one shed was destroyed and damage was done to a carport. Power lines were damaged. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for Storm Data.
November 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$10,000	Several large trees blown down across roadways and power lines.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$10,000	Mobile home damaged.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$8,000	A portion of a farm supply business was destroyed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$5,000	A large tree fell on a home near Bay Street and Highway 229. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
June 2012	Flash Flood	Sanderson	$5,000	Widespread interstate flooding occurred along Interstate 10 in Baker County. The interstate was closed near mile marker 317 near Sanderson due to flooding. The cost of damage was estimated and is likely underestimated.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$5,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1996	Flash Flood	Macclenny	$5,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$4,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen St Mary	$3,500	Roof damge at Kuyper Field.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$3,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$3,000	Baker County Law Enforcement Social Media showed a picture of a large tree blown down onto a home roof and a few other trees down at a residence on Abernathy Circle near County Road 127. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for Storm Data.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$3,000	Large trees were uprooted on the North end of CR 121.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$3,000	Large trees were blown down.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$3,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen St Mary	$2,500	Large trees were blown down.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2000	Flash Flood	Countywide	$2,500	Numerous roads closed.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$2,500	no account filed
May 1973	Tornado (F0)	not stated	$2,500	no account filed
August 2022	Flood	Macclenny	$2,000	Emergency manager reported that the steel bridge road was closed. All addresses east of steel bridge road were unable to be reached due to flooding from the St. Marys river. As of 5 pm EDT, the St. Marys river near Macclenny is in minor flood stage at a height of 12.78 ft. This type of impact typically occurs when the river reaches 15 ft. Steel bridge road was reopened on Sept 1st.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen St Mary	$2,000	Multiple trees were blown down in the Glen St. Mary area. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in StormData.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$2,000	Power lines downed.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Olustee	$2,000	Large trees down near Interstate 10.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$2,000	Large trees down.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$2,000	Large trees down between Sanderson and Taylor along highway 250.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$2,000	no account filed
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Macclenny	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 1998	Hail	Taylor	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
December 1997	Tornado (F0)	Sanderson	$1,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sapp	$1,000	Trees and power lines were blown down along Country Estates Ct.
August 2022	Flood	Macclenny	$1,000	Baker county dispatch reported flooding ongoing in Macclenny along US-90. Ditches and low lying spots were inundated with ponding of water, some water was encroaching homes.
January 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Taylor	$1,000	Central dispatch reported property damage and numerous trees blown down at a residence off of Palm Road. Strong winds damaged a pump house and a water softener. The damage was estimated at one thousand dollars.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen St Mary	$1,000	Large trees and power lines down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$1,000	Large tress were blown down along I-10.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	not stated	$1,000	Numerous trees and power lines blown down near Glen St. Marys.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Glen St Mary	$500	A couple of trees and power lines were blown down across Cedar Creek Farm Road. A cold front lingered across South Georgia. This feature combined with elevated MLCAPE of 2000 J/kg, steep mid-level lapse rates, decent shear and moist dew pts produced scattered strong to severe storms during the afternoon and evening.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sanderson	$500	A large tree was snapped near Gaskins Circle and Highway 229. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.

Mines and quarries

2 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 2 workings inside this county. None of them still produces: all are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Phosphorus-Phosphates	2
Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite	1
Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Water, Free	1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Baker County Deposit #1	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Water, Free	Occurrence	1965
	North Baker County Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Water, Free, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect

Collected here, 1861 to 1975

8 of 1,722 shown

Museum specimens collected in and around this county - inside the rectangle that bounds it - and catalogued with a date and a place: 1,722 of them, by kingdom 1,405 animalia, 188 plantae, 122 fungi, 4 protozoa, 3 unrecorded. Each is a physical object in a named collection, not a sighting. Held by UCFC, FSU, USNM, CUMV, FMNH, BPI among others, and each settlement page carries the specimens collected near it.

The oldest of them. A specimen proves something was collected on that day; its absence proves nothing.

Year	Species	Kingdom	Where	Collector	Catalogue
1861	Libellula axilena Westwood, 1837	Animalia	Osceola National Forest, Ocean Pond Camp	A. & H. Dietrich	CUIC CUIC000121835
1887	Eriocaulon compressum Lam.	Plantae	not stated	Miss H.M. Heading	USF 274577
1887	Leucothoe axillaris (Lam.) D.Don	Plantae	not stated	Miss H.M. Heading	USF 34404
1887	Pinguicula caerulea Walter	Plantae	Macclenny	H.M.H.	MIN 191295
1890	Osmunda regalis L.	Plantae	Macclenny.<br/>	Alice J. Heading	WTU 124681
1897	Ludwigia linearis Walter	Plantae	McClenny.	A. H. Curtiss	USF 209956
1897	Schizachyrium tenerum Nees	Plantae	McClenny.	A. H. Curtiss	USF 209673
1897	Scleria distans Poir.	Plantae	Near Maclenny, Fla.	A. H. Curtiss	FSU 000027339

Every populated place in the county

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

Baxter

Sanderson census division · 32087 · On Moccasin Creek · Moniac quadrangle

11 sheets, 1918 to 1994
Bessent

Macclenny census division · 32063 · Maxville quadrangle

13 sheets, 1918 to 1981
Eddy

Sanderson census division · Near Crews Island · Eddy quadrangle

9 sheets, 1954 to 2006
Glen Saint Mary

Sanderson census division · 32040 · On Turkey Creek · Macclenny West quadrangle

14 sheets, 1917 to 1981
Kenny

Sanderson census division · 32040 · Macclenny West quadrangle

14 sheets, 1917 to 1981
LaBuena

Macclenny census division · 32063 · Maxville quadrangle

13 sheets, 1918 to 1981
Macclenny

Macclenny census division · 32063 · Macclenny East quadrangle

12 sheets, 1917 to 1981
Manning

Macclenny census division · 32063 · Manning quadrangle

12 sheets, 1918 to 1981
Manns Spur

Sanderson census division · 32087 · Sanderson South quadrangle

9 sheets, 1954 to 2005
Margaretta

Sanderson census division · 32040 · Macclenny West quadrangle

14 sheets, 1917 to 1981
McPherson

Macclenny census division · 32063 · Maxville quadrangle

13 sheets, 1918 to 1981
Okeafenoke Swamp

Sanderson census division · 32072 · Olustee quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 2005

No longer a settlement
Olustee

Sanderson census division · 32087 · Olustee quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 2005
Pine Top

Sanderson census division · 32040 · Macclenny West quadrangle

14 sheets, 1917 to 1981
Sanderson

Sanderson census division · 32087 · Sanderson North quadrangle

9 sheets, 1954 to 2005
Sapp

Macclenny census division · 32040 · Manning quadrangle

12 sheets, 1918 to 1981
Sargent

Sanderson census division · Near Long Island · Sargent quadrangle

8 sheets, 1954 to 1994
Steckert

Macclenny census division · 32063 · Manning quadrangle

12 sheets, 1918 to 1981
Taylor

Sanderson census division · 32087 · On Little River · Taylor quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 2005

The vanished settlements of Baker County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.