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Fowey Rocks Light

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 4 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“Fowey Rocks Light is located seven miles southeast of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne. The lighthouse was completed in 1878, replacing the Cape Florida Light.”

Wikipedia article Fowey Rocks Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 2011 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Offshore in Straits of Florida 6.3 mi SSE of Cape Florida on Key Biscayne, Florida
  • When was it listed? January 2011
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Light Stations of the United States MPS
  • National Register reference number. 10001181 - 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

1956 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fowey Rocks Light, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Fowey Rocks Light, surveyed 1956

Maps showing this location

4 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

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Cape Florida Lighthouse6.3 miles1970
Boca Chita Key Historic District6.7 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10001181 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami-Dade CountyAll 191 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.