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Photograph of Jekyll Island Club
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jekyll Island Club

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1886. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Jekyll Island Club was a private club on Jekyll Island, on Georgia's Atlantic coast. It was founded in 1886 when members of an incorporated hunting and recreational club purchased the island for $125,000 from John Eugene du Bignon.”

Wikipedia article Jekyll Island Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Glynn County · listed in 1972 · category: District · built in 1886 · 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. Between Riverview Dr. and Old Village Blvd., Jekyll Island, 31527
  • When was it listed? January 1972
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Jekyll Island
  • When was it built? 1886
  • National Register reference number. 72000385 - 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Jekyll Island Club between 1993 and 2017, burning about 18 acres in total. 11 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
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1

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
23 July 2007Natural1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 July 2017Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-GLYNN-001
13 July 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-005
28 June 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 June 1996Natural1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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 Jekyll Island Club: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
Jekyll Island PlacerTitaniumOccurrenceBeach Placer

Every working recorded in Glynn 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.

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
Faith Chapelunder 500 feet1971
Rockefeller Cottage0.1 miles1971
Horton-duBignon House2.9 miles1971
Horton-duBignon House, Brewery Ruins, duBignon Cemetery3.0 miles1971
St. Simons Lighthouse and Lighthouse Keepers' Building5.4 miles1972
Strachan House Garage5.4 miles1997

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000385 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glynn CountyAll 18 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.