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

St. John's Lighthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1918.

From the record

“Johns River Light is a decommissioned lighthouse in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S., which stands near the mouth of the St. It is located on the grounds of Naval Station Mayport in the Mayport area.”

Wikipedia article St. Johns River Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 112 National Register listings published here for Duval County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. U.S. Naval Station, Mayport, 32233
  • When was it listed? June 1976
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Jacksonville Beaches
  • National Register reference number. 76002237 - 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

1918 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering St. John's Lighthouse, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering St. John's Lighthouse, surveyed 1918

Fires near this property

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of St. John's Lighthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreservePALM TREE
24 August 1993Natural2.0 acresFort Caroline National MemorialWILEMA
31 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
22 July 2020Naturalunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreserveGREEN TRAIL
17 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTimucuan Ecological & Historic PreserveCEDAR
6 June 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2006Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in FloridaCHICKEN
2 June 1992Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Duval County

Storms near this property

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayport, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 2 heavy rain, 1 waterspout. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 1998Thunderstorm WindMayport$2,000Large trees were blown down.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMayport$2,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindMayport$20no account filed
June 2013Heavy RainMayport-Street flooding was reported in the Villages of Mayport.
May 2006HailMayport-no account filed
June 2006Tornado (F0)Mayport-no account filed
September 2006Tornado (F0)Mayport-no account filed
September 2006Heavy RainMayport-no account filed
May 2005Rip CurrentMayport-no account filed
September 2004Funnel CloudMayport-no account filed
September 2000WaterspoutMayport-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindMayport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Duval County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Napoleon Bonaparte Broward House0.7 miles1972
St. George Episcopal Church1.4 miles2002
St. Johns Light1.7 miles2018
Ribault Inn Club2.3 miles2000
Kingsley Plantation3.2 miles1970
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve3.9 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76002237 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Duval CountyAll 112 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.
  • 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.