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Photograph of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1918.

From the record

“The Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church is a historic site in Nassauville, Florida. On August 28, 1998, it was added to the U.S.”

Wikipedia article Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (Nassauville, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Nassau County · listed in 1998 · 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 as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. FL 107, Nassauville, 32034
  • When was it listed? August 1998
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Yulee
  • National Register reference number. 98001099 - 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

1918 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church, surveyed 1918

Fires near this property

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 876 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 21 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
Debris and open burning42
Natural25
Railroad operations and maintenance25
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBUCCANEER (45)
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service2003-07-1089
8 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGREGORY AVE. (45)
4 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFRANK WARD RD (45)
24 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOWENS RD (45)
19 August 1995Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1995Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Amelia Island PlacerTitanium-Heavy MineralsOccurrenceMonazite, Zircon, Rutile, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Nassau County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nassauville, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 8 heavy rain, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Thunderstorm WindNassauville$3,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2025Heavy RainNassauville-A personal weather station KFLFERNA260 measured 4.58 inches of rain since 6:30 pm EDT.
August 2025Heavy RainNassauville-A personal weather station KFLFERNA237 measured 2.98 inches of rain in the past hour.
August 2025Heavy RainNassauville-A personal weather station KFLFERNA260 measured 3.81 inches of rain in the past hour.
September 2025Heavy RainNassauville-A personal weather station KFLFERNA237 measured 4.22 inches of rain in about one hour. Several sites showed 3 to 4 inches in the area.
September 2024Heavy RainNassauville-A public rain gauge located along the Nassau | River just west of Amelia Island measured 3.14 inches storm total rainfalll.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindNassauville-A power line was blown down near the intersection of Old Nassauville Road and Amelia Concourse. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2023Heavy RainNassauville-A public weather station along Cherry Creek Drive measured 5.86 inches of rainfall between 7 am and 9:30 am. The time of rainfall was based off of radar data. This public station is part of a larger mesonet network. Numerous other stations in the area measured 4-6 inches of rainfall during this time period near Amelia Concourse.
April 2022Heavy RainNassauville-Daily storm total rainfall was up to 2.40 inches at the mesonet site FW9949 in Fernandina Beach.
April 2022Heavy RainNassauville-The mesonet site FW9949 measured 5.56 inches of rain since midnight.
January 2017HailNassauville-Penny size hail was reported along Nassauville Road in Fernandina Beach. The time of the event was based on radar.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNassauville-A tree was blown down southeast of Yulee. The time of damage was based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hippard House4.3 miles2001
Ervin's Rest4.4 miles1998
Evans Rendezvous4.5 miles2002
Nassau County Jail7.1 miles2009
Fairbanks House7.1 miles1973
Tabby House7.2 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001099 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nassau CountyAll 15 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.
  • 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.