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Photograph of crawler-transporter
Photograph by NASA/Jim Grossmann, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities

Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 2000 · category: Object · built in 1965.

Sources: 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 2 objectss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. NASA, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, 32899
  • When was it listed? January 2000
  • Category. object
  • Also known as. John F. Kennedy Space Center MPS
  • Census division. Space Center
  • When was it built? 1965
  • National Register reference number. 99001643 - 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 Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, surveyed 1979
Topographic sheet covering Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Missile Crawler Transporter Facilities between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,464 acres in total. 81 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
Natural81
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Natural5.0 acresMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeBULLFROG
6 September 2000Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeGROUP 4
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeLONE TREE
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeLONE TREE II
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeIND6STEAVE
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeIND5STEAVE
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeMOORCR-NO1
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeMOORCR-NO2

Every fire recorded in Brevard County

Maps showing this location

8 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
Press Site-Clock and Flag Pole0.8 miles2000
Launch Control Center0.9 miles2000
Vehicle Assembly Building-High Bay and Low Bay1.0 miles2000
Launch Complex 391.0 miles1973
Crawlerway1.0 miles2000
Launch Complex 39-Pad A2.3 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99001643 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Brevard CountyAll 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.