Gate House

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

From the record

“The Gate House is an historic single-family home located at 214 South Beach Road in Jupiter Island, Florida. On November 21, 2001, it was added to the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Gate House (Jupiter Island, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. 214 S. Beach Rd., Jupiter Island, 33455
When was it listed? November 2001
Category. building
Census division. Port Salerno-Hobe Sound
National Register reference number. 01001246 - 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 Gate House, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Gate House, surveyed 1948

Fires near this property

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Gate House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,178 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Debris and open burning	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MA-SUGAR PINE FIRE-1145
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge	LINE DOWN
2 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BRIDGE (43)
14 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(MA) SANDY PINES (461)
7 July 2004	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	976-THE GOLF
3 July 2004	Natural	30 acres	Florida Forest Service	JD STATE PARK SCOUT
29 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Martin 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.

1948 USGS Hobe Sound quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1949 USGS Hobe Sound quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1986 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Olympia School	2.3 miles	2002
	Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District	5.5 miles	2006

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001246 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Martin County	All 14 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.