Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.
From the record
“Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park is a 2,121.37 acres (858.49 ha) Florida state park in unincorporated Leon County, about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Tallahassee and near the community of Woodville. The park takes its name from a natural bridge where the St.”
Wikipedia article Natural Bridge Battlefield Historic State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 72 National Register listings published here for Leon County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.70000188- 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
1954 to 1999
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19541999
Fires near this property
82 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Natural Bridge Battlefield
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,491 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 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
Natural
20
Debris and open burning
20
Railroad operations and maintenance
14
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Arson/incendiarism
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Natural Bridge Battlefield: 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. 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
Woodville, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 28 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Numerous trees and power lines were down. Ten homes were damaged from fallen trees and straight line winds: two on Old Woodville Highway, three on Woodville Highway, and one each on Wakulla Springs Road, Grubbs Road, Register Road, Barwick Drive and Natural Bridge Road. Over 4,000 residents in Woodville and surrounding areas were without power. A large tree limb was blown through a mobile home wall on Spring Sink Road. Road closures due to fallen trees and power lines included Woodville Highway from Robinson Road to Lawhon and Oak Ridge Road, and Natural Bridge Road from Old Woodville Highway to a mile and a half east of Woodville Highway.
Two frame homes sustained major damage and one received minor damage. Two mobile homes and a business were damaged. Numerous trees snapped and power lines down. The damage path extended along State Road 363 (Woodville Highway) from Woodville to the Wakulla County line. Reported by the Florida EOC.
A 12 inch diameter Cherry Tree blew down onto power lines and blocked a driveway at 11635 Bright Star Circle near Woodville. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
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.
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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