St. Marys Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Marys Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1976 and is located in St. The city was first settled in the mid-16th century by the Spanish.”
Wikipedia article St. Marys Historic District (Georgia), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Camden County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 35 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly bounded by Waterfront Rd., Norris, Alexander, and Oak Grove Cemetery, St. Marys, 31558
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. district
Census division. St. Marys
National Register reference number. 76000609 - 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of St. Marys Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 71 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
Arson/incendiarism	71
Misuse of fire by a minor	37
Debris and open burning	35
Natural	31
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-042
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-043
29 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CAMDEN-009
15 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 1992	Natural	10.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Natural	37 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROAD 19 (45)

Every fire recorded in Camden 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

3 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
Orange Hall	0.8 miles	1973
John Houstoun McIntosh Sugarhouse	4.3 miles	1992
Greyfield	6.4 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Camden County	All 12 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.