Fort Matanzas National Monument

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1927.

From the record

“Fort Matanzas National Monument is the site where the Spanish built a fort. It was designated a United States national monument on October 15, 1924.”
Wikipedia article Fort Matanzas National Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for St. Johns County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1924.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 15 mi. S of St. Augustine, St. Augustine, 32080
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
Census division. Matanzas
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 66000098 - 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.

Fires near this property

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Fort Matanzas National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,016 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF RAYONIER PIT
8 August 2008	Natural	3.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF- EVANS GRADE
3 August 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 August 1999	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 1999	Natural	24 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 August 1993	Natural	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF- 55 RAYONIER 2

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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.

1927 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Matanzas Inlet quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor Center	0.5 miles	2008
	Lodge and Hut	1.2 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000098 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Johns County	All 51 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.