Photograph of Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B — Photograph by Frank Michaux, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Launch Complex 39-Pad B

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) is the second of Launch Complex 39's three launch pads, located at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. The pad, along with Launch Complex 39A, was designed for the Saturn V launch vehicle, then the United States' most powerful rocket.”
Wikipedia article Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Launch Complex 39--Pad B - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NASA, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, 32899
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. district
Also known as. John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
Census division. Space Center
National Register reference number. 99001639 - 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

1949 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Launch Complex 39-Pad B, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Launch Complex 39-Pad B, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Launch Complex 39-Pad B between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,307 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	44
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	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
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	LONE TREE
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	LONE TREE II
26 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Canaveral National Seashore	CRUZ
18 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	STOP 13
1 September 1998	Debris and open burning	430 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	4.4 ESCAPE
6 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	EXPLORER II
30 August 2005	Natural	2.0 acres	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	GOOSE CHASE
23 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge	C AVENUE

Every fire recorded in Brevard 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.

1949 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1952 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Titusville quadrangle1:100000

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
Crawlerway	1.6 miles	2000
Launch Complex 39-Pad A	1.7 miles	2000
Launch Complex 39	1.7 miles	1973
Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities	2.6 miles	2000
Launch Control Center	3.4 miles	2000
Vehicle Assembly Building-High Bay and Low Bay	3.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brevard County	All 41 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.