St. Catherine's Island

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Catherines Island is a sea island on the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, 42 miles (68 km) south of Savannah in Liberty County. Catherine's Sound and Sapelo Sound, is ten miles (16 km) long and from one to three miles (4.8 km) wide.”
Wikipedia article St. Catherines Island, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Liberty County · listed in 1969 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 10 mi. off the GA coast between St. Catherines Sound and Sapelo Sound, South Newport
When was it listed? December 1969
Category. district
Census division. Midway
National Register reference number. 69000332 - 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.

Fires near this property

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of St. Catherine's Island between 1999 and 2000, burning about 159 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
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
20 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1999	Natural	90 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2000	Natural	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-LIBERTY-014
31 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	60 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-LIBERTY-010
23 June 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2000-LIBERTY-143

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000332 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Liberty County	All 11 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.