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Duck House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Duck House, part of the Richards estate, was a historic dwelling and is an archaeological site on Cumberland Island near St. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1984, and burned down a few years later from a fire started by an illegal camper.”

Wikipedia article Duck House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Camden County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Cumberland Island, St. Marys, 31558
  • When was it listed? February 1984
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Cumberland Island National Seashore MRA
  • Census division. St. Marys
  • National Register reference number. 84000938 - 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

47 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Duck House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,293 acres in total. 41 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1999Natural1.5 acresCumberland Island National SeashoreHORSETRAIL
3 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreNATURAL OUT #3
3 August 2014Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreJUDGE
25 August 1999Natural2.5 acresCumberland Island National SeashoreCOASTER
25 August 1999Naturalunder an acreOkefenokee National Wildlife RefugeC.ISLAND 2
12 August 2014Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreTERRAPIN TRAIL
11 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreNEW ROAD
1 August 2012Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreWHITNEY ROAD

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Duck House: 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zirconium, Titanium, Thorium, REE, Zirconium, Titanium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Brunswick DepositTitanium, ZirconiumProspect1955
Cumberland Island DepositThorium, REE, Zirconium, TitaniumProspectBeach Placer
Cumberland IslandZirconium, TitaniumProspectPLACER, MARINE
Folkston PlacerZirconium, TitaniumProducerBeach 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Main Road1.4 miles1984
Greyfield5.0 miles2003
High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District5.2 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84000938 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Camden CountyAll 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.