High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District, on Cumberland Island near St. Marys, Georgia, United States, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Camden County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. NE of St. Marys on Cumberland Island, St. Marys, 31558
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. district
Census division. St. Marys
National Register reference number. 78000265 - 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

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,207 acres in total. 31 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	31
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Cumberland Island National Seashore	HORSETRAIL
3 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	JUDGE
25 August 1999	Natural	2.5 acres	Cumberland Island National Seashore	COASTER
25 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	C.ISLAND 2
22 August 2011	Natural	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CAMDEN-007
12 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	TERRAPIN TRAIL
1 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	WHITNEY ROAD
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CAMDEN-003

Every fire recorded in Camden 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 High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zirconium, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Folkston Placer	Zirconium, Titanium	Producer	Beach Placer

Every working 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
Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse	3.8 miles	1989
Duck House	5.2 miles	1984
Main Road	5.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78000265 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.
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.