Clay County Courthouse

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“The Clay County Historic Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Green Cove Springs, Florida. The two-story brick building was built in 1889 and used until 1973.”
Wikipedia article Clay County Courthouse (Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1889.

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. Brabantio Ave., Green Cove Springs, 32043
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. building
Census division. Green Cove Springs
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 75000546 - 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

1947 to 1991

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Clay County Courthouse, surveyed 1991

Topographic sheet covering Clay County Courthouse, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Clay County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,252 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 8 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	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
9 September 1996	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 September 2010	Natural	4.1 acres	Florida Forest Service	10-GUSTAFSON'S FIRE-2010-07-0474
5 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
10 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 August 1994	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 1993	Natural	4.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Clay County Courthouse: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: REE, Thorium, Titanium, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clay County Steam Brick Co Pit	Clay	Past Producer
	Green Cove Springs Concentrator	REE, Thorium, Titanium	Plant

Every working recorded in Clay County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1947 USGS Bostwick quadrangle1:50000
1949 USGS Bostwick quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Green Cove Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1991 USGS Green Cove Springs quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Green Cove Springs Historic District	0.3 miles	1991
St. Mary's Church	0.6 miles	1978
Holly Cottage	5.2 miles	2010
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church and Cemetery	5.3 miles	1973
Memorial Home Community Historic District	7.4 miles	1999

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000546 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay County	All 22 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.
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.