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Photograph of Green Cove Springs Historic District
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Green Cove Springs Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“The Green Cove Springs Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Green Cove Springs, Florida. The district is bounded by Bay Street, CSX RR tracks, Center Street, Orange Avenue, St.”

Wikipedia article Green Cove Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Clay County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

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 Green Cove Springs Historic District, surveyed 1991
Topographic sheet covering Green Cove Springs Historic District, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Green Cove Springs Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,204 acres in total. 32 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
Natural32
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use10
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
8 September 2010Natural4.1 acresFlorida Forest Service10-GUSTAFSON'S FIRE-2010-07-0474
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
3 August 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 August 1993Natural4.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFLORIDA STREET (10)

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 Green Cove Springs Historic District: 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 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

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
St. Mary's Church0.3 miles1978
Clay County Courthouse0.3 miles1975
Holly Cottage5.0 miles2010
St. Margaret's Episcopal Church and Cemetery5.2 miles1973
Memorial Home Community Historic District7.6 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000281 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.