Jones Family Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“Jones Family Historic District is a national historic district located at Islandia, Florida in the Biscayne National Park. It includes the homesite and the agricultural structures on Porgy Key and Totten Key.”
Wikipedia article Jones Family Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Biscayne NP, Islandia
When was it listed? October 2013
Category. district
Census division. Homestead
National Register reference number. 13000846 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 Jones Family Historic District, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Jones Family Historic District, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Jones Family Historic District in 2006, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 November 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Everglades National Park	187/136 DOF

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1949 USGS Elliott Key quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Elliott Key quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Homestead quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Elliott Key quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000846 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami-Dade County	All 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.
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.