Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.
From the record
“African Queen was the name of two boats used in the 1951 movie The African Queen starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It was filmed in the Belgian Congo on a tributary of the Congo River, and on the Nile in the Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda.”
Wikipedia article African Queen (boat), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Monroe County · listed in 1992 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.91001771- 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 1988
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19471988
Fires near this property
1 since 2011
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of AFRICAN QUEEN
in 2011, burning under an acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of AFRICAN QUEEN: 3 producers, 1 past producer.
3 still produce. 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.
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.
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.
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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