Photograph of Anclote Keys Light — Photograph by United States Coast Guard, PA2 Tasha Tully, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Anclote Key Lighthouse

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.

From the record

“The Anclote Keys Light is a lighthouse built in 1887 on Anclote Key, the largest of the Anclote Keys. It is a skeletal square pyramidal tower, painted brown, with a black lantern.”
Wikipedia article Anclote Keys Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1999 · category: Structure · built in 1887.

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 3 structuress, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. Southern end of Anclote Key Island, Anclote Key Island
When was it listed? April 1999
Category. structure
Census division. Tarpon Springs
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 99000410 - 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

1943 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Anclote Key Lighthouse, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Anclote Key Lighthouse, surveyed 1943

Fires near this property

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Anclote Key Lighthouse between 1993 and 2017, burning about 94 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
22 July 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	51/DOVE/0766
25 June 2010	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	51/KEY VISTA FIRE/0723
24 May 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
6 April 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 April 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 March 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	FRED HOWARD PARK (52)
3 March 2017	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	BAILLIES BLUFF (51)

Every fire recorded in Pinellas 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.

1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000

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
DUCHESS (Sponge Hooking Boat)	5.1 miles	1990
GEORGE N. CRETEKOS (Sponge Diving Boat)	5.1 miles	1990
N.K. SYMI (Sponge Diving Boat)	5.1 miles	1990
ST. NICHOLAS III (Sponge Diving Boat)	5.1 miles	1990
ST. NICHOLAS VI (Sponge Diving Boat)	5.1 miles	1990
E. R. Meres Sponge Packing House	5.2 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99000410 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pinellas County	All 72 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.