Photograph of St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park — Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Augustine Alligator Farm Historic District

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1937.

From the record

“Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is one of Florida's oldest continuously running attractions, having opened on May 20, 1893. It has 24 species of crocodilians, and also a variety of other reptiles, mammals and birds, as well as exhibits, animal performances and educational demonstrations.”
Wikipedia article St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for St. Johns County · listed in 1992 · category: District · built in 1893.

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 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 999 Anastasia Blvd., St. Augustine, 32080
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. district
Census division. St. Augustine
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 92001232 - 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.

Fires near this property

257 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of St. Augustine Alligator Farm Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 723 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 34 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
Equipment and vehicle use	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Natural	34
Arson/incendiarism	34
Recreation and ceremony	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	4
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WINN DIXIE (55)
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 2020	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SAN SEBASTIAN (55)
5 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 September 1993	Natural	75 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
2 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.7 acres	Florida Forest Service	N. WASHINGTON ST. (55)
19 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in St. Johns 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. Augustine Alligator Farm Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Anastasia Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Mclead Limestone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in St. Johns County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1937 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:24000
1943 USGS St. Augustine quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS St. Augustine 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

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
St. Augustine Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters	0.3 miles	1981
Spanish Coquina Quarries	1.1 miles	1972
Sanchez Powder House Site	1.2 miles	1972
St. Augustine National Cemetery	1.3 miles	2016
Bridge of Lions	1.4 miles	1982
Gonzalez-Alvarez House	1.4 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001232 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Johns County	All 51 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.