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St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church building built in 1888 and its adjacent cemetery located at 5555 North Tropical Trail, in Courtenay, on Merritt Island, Florida, in the United States. Luke's and its cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places as Old St.”
Wikipedia article St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Courtenay, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 1990 · 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, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5555 N. Tropical Trail, Courteney, 32953
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Census division. Merritt Island
National Register reference number. 90000848 - 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

1949 to 1981

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.

Topographic sheet covering St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet covering St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

200 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 200 fires within 5 miles of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,646 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 27 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	96
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	2
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
2 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	CAROLE AVE (O5)
16 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	STONE
16 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	TEL-4-BK-W
1 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PHYLLIS (5)
6 August 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	GROVE (05)

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Old: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	F&W Mines - Hwy 520 Mine	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
	Kings Park Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Brevard 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.

1949 USGS Courtenay quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1951 USGS Courtenay quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Courtenay quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cape Canaveral quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
City Point Community Church	3.2 miles	1995
J.R. Field Homestead	4.1 miles	1997
Dr. George E. Hill House	4.3 miles	1994
Central Instrumentation Facility	5.9 miles	2000
Headquarters Building	6.1 miles	2000
Operations and Checkout Building	6.3 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000848 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brevard County	All 41 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.