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URCA DE LIMA (shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1948.

From the record

“Urca de Lima is a Spanish shipwreck near Fort Pierce, Florida, United States. She was part of the 1715 Treasure Fleet, one of the numerous Spanish treasure fleets sailing between Spain and its colonies in the Americas.”

Wikipedia article Urca de Lima, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Lucie County · listed in 2001 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 200 yds offshore Jack Island Park, N of Ft. Pierce Inlet, Ft. Pierce, 34949
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Fort Pierce
  • National Register reference number. 01000529 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering URCA DE LIMA (shipwreck), surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering URCA DE LIMA (shipwreck), surveyed 1948

Fires near this property

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of URCA DE LIMA (shipwreck) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 947 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
16 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(SL) AIRPORT (1342)
16 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 July 1999Natural3.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 1997Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 1995Natural10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 July 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceVILLAGE MARINA (56)

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of URCA DE LIMA (shipwreck): 10 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Stewart - Stewart MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Minton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
St. Lucie MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Airport MineSilicaProducer
Frank Stewert Trucking - Tozour Road MineSandProducer
Glen Blackburn Trucking - Airport MineSandProducer
Glen Blackburn Trucking - Ralls MineSandProducer
Glen Blackburn Trucking, Inc. - Sapp Road MineSandUnknown
North PitSilicaProducer

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 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
St. Lucie Village Historic District2.5 miles1989
Casa Caprona3.6 miles1984
Moores Creek Bridge4.0 miles2001
Zora Neale Hurston House4.0 miles1991
Fort Pierce City Hall, Old4.2 miles2001
Sunrise Theatre4.2 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000529 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lucie CountyAll 16 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.