Built in 1825. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. 4 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.
From the record
“Carysfort Reef Light is located on Carysfort Reef east of Key Largo, Florida. The lighthouse has an iron-pile foundation with a platform, and a skeletal, octagonal, pyramidal tower, which is painted red.”
Wikipedia article Carysfort Reef Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1984 · category: Structure · built in 1825, by I. W. P. Lewis, George Meade.
National Register reference number.84000199- 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
1956 to 1988
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19561988
Storms near this property
24 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Key Largo, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 9 waterspout, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 hail.
The reports record 20 injuries. 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.
A multivortex tornado touched down just west of U.S. 1 near mile marker 100. The tornado moved north northeast at 30 mph passing across ten housing subdivision, mostly mobile home parks. It damaged about 600 structures, tore down utility lines, damaged vessels and destroyed a great deal of foliage. The tornado crossed to the east of U.S. 1 near the intersection of Highway 905, overturning a semi tractor trailer, and continue north northeast for about six miles damaging house roofs and foliage.
Tornado touched down on Atlantic side of U.S. Highway One and moved toward the northwest. The tornado caused minor damage to facia on a business on the bayside of U.S. Highway One, then moved into a residential area. One residence with two broken windows, and another residence had an exterior wall penetrated with a 2x4 carried from over 250 yards away from a home under construction. Several trees and large limbs downed. Estimated maximum wind speed 60 to 70 mph.
Localized street flooding was observed in several neighborhoods in the Key Largo through Tavernier areas of the upper Florida Keys. In addition, a few boats on lifts with drain plugs left in were damaged or dropped into local canals due to the weight of accumulated rainfall onboard.
Multiple spotters reported several downed tree limbs ranging from 8 to 12 inches in diameter at the intersection of Dolphin and Biscayne Roads in Key Largo.
A car dealership assistant manager reported strong winds blew open double glass doors and caused 30 feet of suspended ceiling to collapse. A flag pole with two flags suspended was bent 30 degrees at a bank across the street.
Estimated southwest wind gusts to 45 mph shifted to northwest, gusting to about 60 mph as a line of thunderstorms moved through the Jewfish Creek area of North Key Largo. Filled trash cans were blown across a property with a mailbox destroyed.
Approximately 10 inches of rain was measured at the Pennekamp State Park rangers quarters ending 09:00 EST on October 1, 2007. Street flooding was observed in the vicinity of the cooperative station.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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