Photograph of Marineland of Florida — Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marine Studios

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1927.

From the record

“Marineland of Florida, one of Florida's first marine mammal parks, is billed as "the world's first oceanarium". Marineland functions as an entertainment and swim-with-the-dolphins facility, and reopened to the public on March 4, 2006.”
Wikipedia article Marineland of Florida, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Flagler County · listed in 1986 · category: District.

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 5 structuress, 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. CT A1A, Box 122, Marineland, 32080
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. district
Census division. Flagler Beach
National Register reference number. 86000831 - 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

1927 to 1954

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Marine Studios, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheet covering Marine Studios, surveyed 1927

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Marine Studios between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,501 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 3 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	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
16 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	DAVIS GRADE 2 -18
1 September 2005	Natural	18 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF-KELLY
9 August 2011	Natural	6.2 acres	Florida Forest Service	DAVIS GRADE (18)
5 August 1994	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 August 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PAR 4 (18)
3 August 1999	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 July 2004	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	PRINCESS PLACE
9 July 2003	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	FAVOR-DYKES-27-9-30

Every fire recorded in Flagler County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marineland, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Marineland	$20,000	Marineland reported a large tent was destroyed and rooftop air conditioners were also damaged in the storm.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Marineland	$6,000	no account filed
September 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Marineland	-	This tornado touchdown in northern Flagler county just south of Marineland. Damage was limited to trees. Structural damage was not reported. A tornado debris signature was detected along the path. The tornado remained over the Pellicer Creek Conservation Area before dissipating just west of Interstate 95.
May 2016	Hail	Marineland	-	Dime size hail was observed in Marineland near Washington Oaks.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Marineland	-	A wind gust of 61 mph was measured in Marineland.
May 2009	Flood	Marineland	-	Heavy rainfall began in Flagler County on Sunday, May 17th associated with a cold frontal passage with between one and three inches of rain falling by Monday morning. The rainfall increased on Monday with four and a half inches having fallen by 3 p.m. EDT/2 p.m. EST. Due to moist antecedent ground conditions flooding began quickly with County Road 35 west of Bunnell washed out near State Road 100. By Tuesday morning, the 19th, up to eleven and a half inches of rain had fallen with continuing flooding problems continuing. Heavy rainfall continued on Wednesday with up to 24 inches of rain having fallen since Sunday at the Fair Grounds. The rain finally began to slowly taper off on the 21st and 22nd; however, by the end of the event up to 28 inches of rainfall was reported by the school staff in downtown Bunnell (the County Seat). Extensive flooding was reported to multiple roads in Daytona North with over three feet of water on some. Several residents had to be rescued from flooded homes in that area. Significant roads that were reported as having been flooded and closed are County Road 75, County Road 65, Forest Park Rd, Tangerine Rd, County Road 15, and Water Oak Road. In western Flagler County including Deanville, Andulusia, Codys Corner massive flooding of agricultural property was reported with many fields resembling lakes. Many side roads were reported as being underwater including Otis Stone Hunter Road, Hardgrove Grade (west of the Florida East Coast railroad tracks).
September 2008	Funnel Cloud	Marineland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Flagler 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.

1927 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Matanzas quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Matanzas Inlet quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Cherokee Grove	1.6 miles	1997
Washington Oaks Historic District	2.6 miles	2009
Mala Compra Plantation Archeological Site	3.7 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000831 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flagler County	All 11 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.