Boca Chita Key Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1948.

From the record

“The Boca Chita Key Historic District is a U.S. historic district within the Biscayne National Park in Miami-Dade County, Homestead, Florida. Located on the northwest section of Boca Chita Key, delimited by Biscayne Bay in the north and west and a half ruined stone wall on its southern side, it contains three historic buildings and the Boca Chita Lighthouse.”
Wikipedia article Boca Chita Key Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. NW section of Boca Chita Key, roughly bounded by Biscane Bay and a stone wall, Biscayne National Park
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. district
Census division. Homestead
National Register reference number. 97000795 - 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

1948 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Boca Chita Key Historic District, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Boca Chita Key Historic District, surveyed 1948

Fires near this property

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Boca Chita Key Historic District in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Biscayne National Park	BOCA CHITA
1 February 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Biscayne National Park	BRICKETT

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1948 USGS Soldier Key quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1956 USGS Soldier Key quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Miami quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1988 USGS Soldier Key quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Fowey Rocks Light	6.7 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000795 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami-Dade County	All 191 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.