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U.S.S. NARCISSUS (tugboat) Shipwreck

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“USS Narcissus was a screw steamer launched in July 1863 as Mary Cook at East Albany, New York, United States. It was purchased by the Union Navy in New York City on September 23rd, 1863 from James D.”

Wikipedia article USS Narcissus (1863), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 99 National Register listings published here for Hillsborough County · listed in 2018 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2.75 mi. NW of Egmont Key, Crystal River
  • When was it listed? October 2018
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Ruskin
  • National Register reference number. 100003048 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of U.S.S. NARCISSUS (tugboat) Shipwreck between 1995 and 2016, burning about 81 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeWEST BEACH
26 July 2016Natural79 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeEGMONT KEY
2 November 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugePILOT TOWN

Every fire recorded in Hillsborough County

Maps showing this location

6 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

1 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
Egmont Key3.3 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100003048 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hillsborough CountyAll 99 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.