Photograph of Little Cumberland Island Light — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse

Built in 1838. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“The Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse is a privately owned lighthouse in Georgia, United States, on the north end of Little Cumberland Island adjacent to main Cumberland Island, in Camden County on the southeast coast of Georgia.”
Wikipedia article Little Cumberland Island Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Camden County · listed in 1989 · category: Structure · built in 1838.

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 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. N end of Little Cumberland Island, St. Marys
When was it listed? August 1989
Category. structure
Census division. St. Marys
When was it built? 1838
National Register reference number. 89001407 - 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 Little Cumberland Island Lighthouse between 1993 and 2017, burning about 189 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
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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
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
23 July 2007	Natural	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	LIGHTNING
20 July 1993	Natural	160 acres	Cumberland Island National Seashore	HIGH POINT
6 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	RIVERBEACH
24 June 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	CAMPER
22 June 1993	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	BUNKLEY

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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	High Point-Half Moon Bluff Historic District	3.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89001407 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.