American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1918.
From the record
“American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps Station is a national historic site located at 2 Ocean Front North, Jacksonville Beach, in Duval County. As of 2014, the building is a part of to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 112 National Register listings published here for Duval County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
National Register reference number. 14000187 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1918 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19181994
Fires near this property
66 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 66 fires within 5 miles of American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 365 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use
20
Natural
17
Arson/incendiarism
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Debris and open burning
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps Station: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Jacksonville Beach, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 7 heavy rain, 6 flood.
The reports record 2 deaths and 8 injuries. 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.
A tornado, associated with the outer rain bands of tropical storm Allison, touched down in the Sanctuary subdivision, just north of Butler Boulevard. The tornado skipped north northwest touching down briefly on Colonies Drive, Oaks Drive, Plantation Oaks Drive, Beach Boulevard, and in the Adventure Landing subdivision, which was under construction, then dissipated over the Intracoastal Waterway. Two vehicles were overturned and houses and fences suffered minor damage. Several trees were knocked down.
Lightning hit a tower at the Jacksonville Regional Communications Center which caused local dispatch to loose power. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for this event to be included in Storm Data.
At 2:50 pm, emergency management reported law enforcement closed the street at the intersection of 16th Ave South and 9th Street in Jax beach due to flooding. At 3:33 pm, law enforcement reported flooding in Jacksonville Beach east of 3rd Street with some cars abandoned in flood water. At 3:35 pm, law enforcement reported 1st Street and Mayport Road were closed due to high water.
An off duty NWS employee reported that there was street flooding at South Beach Parkway and 16th Avenue. Doppler radar estimated that there was about 2 inches of storm total rainfall in the area.
A trained Spotter reported severe ponding on roadways in Jacksonville Beach with some of Penman Road completely flooded. A few small tree limbs were also reported down.
Water covered several intersections along A1A and many other secondary streets in Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, and northern Ponte Vedra Beach. the Observed estmated over 4 inches of rain since dawn. |
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.
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.
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.
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