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SS COPENHAGEN (shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“SS Copenhagen is a shipwreck off the town of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Florida, United States. She was a cargo steamship, built in England in 1898.”

Wikipedia article SS Copenhagen (1898), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Broward 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 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Pompano Drop-Off S of Hillsboro Inlet, Town of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Pompano Beach
  • National Register reference number. 01000532 - 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

1949 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 7 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering SS COPENHAGEN (shipwreck), surveyed 1956
Topographic sheet covering SS COPENHAGEN (shipwreck), surveyed 1949

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 SS COPENHAGEN (shipwreck): 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Decker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Broward 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
Pompano Beach Mound1.2 miles2014
Mai-Kai Restaurant3.2 miles2014
Sample-McDougald House3.2 miles2004
Hillsboro Inlet Light Station3.7 miles1974
Oakland Park Elementary School4.1 miles1988
Cap's Place4.3 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broward CountyAll 39 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.
  • 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.