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Photograph of Fort Desoto Batteries
Photograph by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Desoto Batteries

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1977 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 8 mi. S of St. Petersburg on Mullet Key, St. Petersburg, 33715
  • When was it listed? December 1977
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. St. Petersburg
  • National Register reference number. 77000407 - 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

1921 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fort Desoto Batteries, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Fort Desoto Batteries, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fort Desoto Batteries between 1995 and 2016, burning about 81 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 July 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeWEST BEACH
26 July 2016Natural79 acresEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugeEGMONT KEY
2 November 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreEgmont Key National Wildlife RefugePILOT TOWN

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

3 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
Pass-a-Grille Historic District5.1 miles1989
Pass-A-Grille Historic District (Boundary Increase)5.6 miles2003
Don Ce Sar Hotel6.5 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000407 in Record Group 79.
Pinellas CountyAll 72 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.