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Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1948.

From the record

“The Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site is the site of the historic shipwreck of an Italian barkentine off the coast of Hutchinson Island in Martin County, Florida, with the nearest landmark being the House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar.”
Wikipedia article Georges Valentine (shipwreck), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 2006 · 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. Offshore of the House of Refuge, Stuart
When was it listed? July 2006
Category. site
Census division. Stuart
National Register reference number. 06000619 - 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 Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site, surveyed 1948

Fires near this property

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site between 1993 and 2017, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
15 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MARKET PLACE (43)
3 June 2004	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	751-MA-FISHERMANS COVE
10 June 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MURRAY (43)
23 April 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 April 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	CAR DEALERSHIP (43)
12 March 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	334-MA-FIRE-YMCA FIRE
9 February 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 February 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Storms near this property

25 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stuart, the town this property stands in, in 25 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 8 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1997	Lightning	Stuart	1 hurt	Lightning struck a boater near Stuart in the Indian River Lagoon. He was knocked unconscious and fell into the water. He was pulled back on the boat and revived by his wife.
August 2001	Flash Flood	Stuart	$1,500,000	Rains associated with distant Tropical Storm Barry in the Gulf of Mexico produced flooding across much of Martin County. About 13 inches of rain fell in the area between midnight and late morning on August 2nd. The most serious flooding occurred in Stuart, Port Salerno and Palm City. Over 300 homes received some water damage. Major damage was reported in 63 homes and 6 mobile homes.
April 1993	Tornado (F0)	Stuart	$50,000	A small tornado briefly touched down at the intersection of Dixie Highway and Indian Street in Stuart damaging the roof of a U-Haul rental building, moving a U-Haul trailer 200 yards, and blew around signs and garbage cans.
August 2006	Tornado (F0)	Stuart	$20,000	An F0 tornado briefly touched down in the Rocky Point area near Stuart damaging solar panels and roofs.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds damaged a carport, fence and metal shed, and blew down large tree limbs near Stuart.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	$1,000	A member of the public reported a medium-sized tree had fallen over onto a shed in Stuart, one mile west-northwest of Stuart Witham Airport.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines and broke windows in Stuart.
October 2020	Heavy Rain	Stuart	-	CoCoRaHS, mesonet and Cooperative observer reports, along with reports from SKYWARN spotters and Emergency Management officials indicated that rainfall totals reached ten to over twenty inches between the early morning hours of October 1 and the early evening of October 4. Observations over twelve inches were received from seven recording stations within Hobe Sound and Stuart (highest value was from a Weather Underground mesonet site in Stuart; 20.63 inches).
May 2013	Hail	Stuart	-	A spotter observed nickel sized hail in Stuart.
March 2008	Hail	Stuart	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail south of Stuart.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees 10 miles west of Stuart. A home weather station recorded a wind gust to 61 mph.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines in the Stuart area.
November 1998	Flash Flood	Stuart	-	Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Mitch produced some flooding in eastern Martin County. Many roadways were covered with 10 inches of water and four houses flooded.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	-	A Skywarn spotter measured winds of 51 knots in Stuart.
March 2003	Hail	Stuart	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Stuart	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Stuart	-	no account filed
August 1999	Waterspout	Stuart	-	no account filed
April 1999	Hail	Stuart	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Stuart	-	no account filed
January 1997	Waterspout	Stuart	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Stuart	-	no account filed
May 1996	Funnel Cloud	Stuart	-	no account filed
May 1996	Funnel Cloud	Stuart	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Stuart	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin County

Maps showing this location

9 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 St Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS St. Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1950 USGS St. Lucie Inlet quadrangle1:24000
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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
House of Refuge at Gilbert's Bar	0.8 miles	1974
Mount Elizabeth Archeological Site	4.2 miles	2002
Tuckahoe	4.2 miles	2005
Stuart Welcome Arch	4.5 miles	2004
Golden Gate Building	4.8 miles	2017
Burn Brae Plantation-Krueger House	4.9 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06000619 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.
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.