Gold Head Branch State Park

Built in 1935 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 2020 · category: District · built in 1935, National Park Service rustic.

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

The listing

Address. 6239 FL 21, Keystone Heights, 32656
When was it listed? July 2020
Category. district
Also known as. Florida's New Deal Resources MPS
Census division. Keystone Heights
When was it built? 1935
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 100005381 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Gold Head Branch State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,283 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 16 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	92
Debris and open burning	63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Natural	24
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	2003-07-1076
18 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	HALL LAKE FIRE
30 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(10) CAMPO ROAD
25 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gold Head Branch State Park: 2 prospects, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium-Heavy Minerals. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Florida Rock Industries - Goldhead Mine	Titanium-Heavy Minerals	Producer	Ilmenite, Leucoxene, Rutile, Zircon, Kyanite
Foremost Clay Mine	Kaolin	Past Producer
Gold Head Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Titanium Deposit	Titanium	Prospect
Unnamed Titanium Deposit	Titanium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Keystone Heights, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Keystone Heights	-	Large trees toppled.

Every storm recorded in Clay County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1942 USGS Ates Creek quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Ates Creek quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Gold Head Branch quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1993 USGS Gold Head Branch quadrangle1:24000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100005381 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 22 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.
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.