Bo Lynn's Grocery

Built in 1936. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“Bo Lynn's Grocery is a small wood general store and gas station located in St. When it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 14, 2017, it was the first listing in St.”
Wikipedia article Bo Lynn's Grocery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Wakulla County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1936.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 850 Port Leon Dr., St. Marks, 32355
When was it listed? February 2017
Category. building
Census division. East Wakulla
When was it built? 1936
National Register reference number. 100000643 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Bo Lynn's Grocery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,499 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
30 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	QUAIL FIRE
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	STRICKLAND FIRE
3 August 1999	Natural	1.4 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	HOLDINGPEN
27 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 1993	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 August 1993	Natural	30 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	MARCIA

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

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 Bo Lynn's Grocery: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Peavy and Son, Inc. - Hannon Mine	Limestone, General	Unknown	Limestone

Every working recorded in Wakulla 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.

1954 USGS St Marks quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS St. Marks quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS St Marks quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS St. Marks quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Fort San Marcos de Apalache	0.3 miles	1966
St. Marks Lighthouse	5.8 miles	1972
Wakulla Springs Archeological and Historic District	6.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000643 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wakulla County	All 10 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.