Photograph of St. Marks Light — Photograph by MaheshGonela, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Marks Lighthouse

Built in 1831. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“Marks Light is the second-oldest light station in Florida, United States. It is located on the east side of the mouth of the St.”
Wikipedia article St. Marks Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Wakulla County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1831.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. N side of Apalache Bay at terminus of FL 59, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
When was it listed? July 1972
Category. building
Census division. East Wakulla
When was it built? 1831
National Register reference number. 72000356 - 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

20 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of St. Marks Lighthouse between 1992 and 2007, burning about 687 acres in total. 11 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
Natural	11
Other causes	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
19 August 1993	Natural	30 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	MARCIA
12 August 2002	Natural	24 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	SAWGRASS
6 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	NATOUT2
31 July 1993	Other causes	16 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	E.R.P.I.
10 July 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	STUBB
7 June 1998	Other causes	30 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	WILD-2
26 June 2007	Natural	20 acres	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	GAMBLING GHEENOE
8 May 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge	ISLAND

Every fire recorded in Wakulla County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1954 USGS Sprague Island quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Sprague Island quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 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 San Marcos de Apalache	5.8 miles	1966
	Bo Lynn's Grocery	5.8 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000356 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wakulla County	All 10 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.