Photograph of St. Simons Island Light — Photograph by Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

St. Simons Lighthouse and Lighthouse Keepers' Building

Built in 1810. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Glynn County · listed in 1972 · category: District · built in 1810.

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 structuress, 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 600 Beachview Dr., St. Simons Island, 31522
When was it listed? April 1972
Category. district
Census division. St. Simons
When was it built? 1810
National Register reference number. 72000386 - 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of St. Simons Lighthouse and Lighthouse Keepers' Building between 1993 and 2015, burning about 11 acres in total. 9 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	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GLYNN-005
28 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 June 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Strachan House Garage	0.4 miles	1997
King and Prince Hotel	0.8 miles	2005
US Coast Guard Station-St. Simons Island	1.5 miles	1998
Horton-duBignon House, Brewery Ruins, duBignon Cemetery	2.5 miles	1971
Horton-duBignon House	2.6 miles	1971
Faith Chapel	5.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000386 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glynn County	All 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.