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Photograph of Cape St. George Light
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cape St. George Light

Built in 2009. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.

From the record

“George Light is a 77-foot (23 m) high brick lighthouse which had originally stood for 153 years on St. George Island, Florida, until toppling into the Gulf of Mexico October 22, 2005.”

Wikipedia article Cape St. George Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure · built in 2009.

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. S point of Little St. George Island, Little St. George Island
  • When was it listed? September 1974
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Apalachicola
  • When was it built? 2009
  • National Register reference number. 74000625 - 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cape St. George Light between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,078 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1999Natural31 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeWP
6 September 1999Natural36 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeDP2
1 July 2014Natural931 acresSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeBONE YARD FIRE
3 December 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSt. Vincent National Wildlife RefugeWEST PASS
26 October 2017Arson/incendiarism80 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLITTLE ST GEORGE (19)

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000625 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin CountyAll 8 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.