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Photograph of St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Mary's Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“Mary's Episcopal Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic church located at 400 St. Johns Avenue in Green Cove Springs, Florida.”

Wikipedia article St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Green Cove Springs, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. St. Johns Ave., Green Cove Springs, 32043
  • When was it listed? February 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Green Cove Springs
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 78000933 - 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 St. Mary's Church, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet covering St. Mary's Church, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of St. Mary's Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,098 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 1996Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Natural4.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFLORIDA STREET (10)
15 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot 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 St. Mary's Church: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay County Steam Brick Co PitClayPast Producer
Green Cove Springs ConcentratorREE, Thorium, TitaniumPlant

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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Green Cove Springs Historic District0.3 miles1991
Clay County Courthouse0.6 miles1975
Holly Cottage4.8 miles2010
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church and Cemetery5.0 miles1973
Memorial Home Community Historic District7.8 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78000933 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clay CountyAll 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.