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Duval County, Florida

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
111historic places
—earliest paper
1822formed
995,567pop. 2020
46cemeteries
1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 111 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach, Mandarin.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Florida is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Duval titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

84 of 111 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

111 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
310 West Church Street ApartmentsJacksonvilleBuilding1983
American Red Cross Volunteer Life Saving Corps StationJacksonville BeachBuilding2014
Arpen, Henry C., HouseJacksonvilleBuilding2019
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Locomotive No. 1504JacksonvilleStructure
Atlantic National Bank AnnexJacksonvilleBuilding1997
Avondale Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict1989
Bethel Baptist Institutional ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding1978
Brewster HospitalJacksonvilleBuilding1976
Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte, HouseJacksonvilleBuilding1972
Carling HotelJacksonvilleBuilding1991
Casa Marina HotelJacksonville BeachBuilding1993
Centennial Hall-Edward Waters CollegeJacksonvilleBuilding1976
Church of the Immaculate ConceptionJacksonvilleBuilding1992
Clara White Mission, DU02071JacksonvilleBuilding2025
Clifton CemeteryJacksonvilleSite2022
Cummer GardensJacksonvilleSite2010
Downtown Jacksonville Historic District (Additional Documentation)JacksonvilleDistrict2016
Durkee Gardens Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict2020
Durkee, Joseph H., Athletic FieldJacksonvilleBuilding2013
Duval County ArmoryJacksonvilleBuilding2023
Dyal-Upchurch BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding1980
Eastside Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict2023
Edward Waters College Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict2022
El Modelo BlockJacksonvilleBuilding1980
Elks Club BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding2000
Epping ForestJacksonvilleBuilding1973
Evergreen CemeteryJacksonvilleSite2011
Florida Baptist BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding1984
Florida TheaterJacksonvilleBuilding1982
Fort Caroline National MemorialJacksonvilleDistrict1966
Garden Club of Jacksonville, TheJacksonvilleBuilding2023
Grand SiteJacksonvilleSite1975
Groover-Stewart Drug Company BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding1992
House at 3325 Via de la ReivaJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 3335 Via de la ReinaJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 3500 Via de la ReinaJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 3609 Via de la ReinaJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 3685 Via de la ReinaJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 3703 Via de la ReinaJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 3764 Ponce de Leon AvenueJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7144 Madrid AvenueJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7207 Ventura AvenueJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7217 Ventura AvenueJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7227 San PedroJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7245 San Jose BoulevardJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7246 San CarlosJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7246 St. Augustine RoadJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7249 San PedroJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7288 San Jose BoulevardJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7306 St. Augustine RoadJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7317 San Jose BoulevardJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7330 Ventura AvenueJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7356 San Jose BoulevardJacksonvilleBuilding1985
House at 7400 San Jose BoulevardJacksonvilleBuilding1985
Hutchinson-Suddath BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding2007
Jacksonville Jewish CenterJacksonvilleBuilding2021
Jacksonville Terminal ComplexJacksonvilleBuilding1976
Kingsley PlantationJacksonvilleBuilding1970
Klutho, Henry John, HouseJacksonvilleBuilding1978
Knight, W.A., BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding2005
Lane-Towers HouseJacksonvilleBuilding1982
Lewis MausoleumJacksonvilleBuilding1997
Little TheatreJacksonvilleBuilding1991
Lynch BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding2003
MAPLE LEAF (Shipwreck Site) NHLMandarinSite1994
Mandarin Store and Post OfficeJacksonvilleBuilding2001
MarabanongJacksonvilleBuilding2013
Masonic TempleJacksonvilleBuilding1980
Memorial CemeteryJacksonvilleSite2020
Memorial ParkJacksonvilleSite2017
Mission of San Juan del Puerto Archeological SiteJacksonvilleSite1986
Morocco TempleJacksonvilleBuilding1979
Mount Zion AME ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding1992
Mt. Calvary Baptist ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding2020
Norman Film Manufacturing Company NHLJacksonvilleDistrict2016
Norman Film StudiosJacksonvilleDistrict2014
Old Jacksonville Free Public LibraryJacksonvilleBuilding1987
Old Ortega Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict2004
Old St. Luke's HospitalJacksonvilleBuilding1972
Palm Spring CemeteryJacksonvilleSite2020
Plaza HotelJacksonvilleBuilding1992
Porter, Thomas V., HouseJacksonvilleBuilding1976
Red Bank PlantationJacksonvilleBuilding1972
Ribault Inn ClubJacksonvilleBuilding2000
Riverside Baptist ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding1972
Riverside Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict1985
Sammis, John S., HouseJacksonvilleBuilding1979
San Jose Administration BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding1985
San Jose Country ClubJacksonvilleBuilding1985
San Jose Estates GatehouseJacksonvilleStructure1988
San Jose HotelJacksonvilleBuilding1985
Snyder Memorial Methodist Episcopal ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding2013
South Jacksonville Grammar SchoolJacksonvilleBuilding2004
Springfield Historic DistrictJacksonvilleDistrict1987
St. Andrew's Episcopal ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding1976
St. George Episcopal ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding2002
St. James BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding1976
St. John's LighthouseMayportStructure1976
St. Johns LightJacksonvilleBuilding2018
St. Matthews Methodist Episcopal ChurchJacksonvilleBuilding2022
Stanton, Edwin M., SchoolJacksonvilleBuilding1983
Timucuan Ecological and Historic PreserveJacksonvilleDistrict1988
Title & Trust Company of Florida BuildingJacksonvilleBuilding1990
Tolbert HouseJacksonvilleBuilding2023
Tookes, Bishop Henry Y., ResidenceJacksonvilleBuilding2022
Union Terminal Company WarehouseJacksonvilleBuilding2021
Unitarian Universalist Church of JacksonvilleJacksonvilleBuilding2019
Village StoreJacksonvilleBuilding1988
West 4th Street Church of GodJacksonvilleBuilding2022
Yellow Bluff FortJacksonvilleSite1970
Young Men's Hebrew AssociationJacksonvilleBuilding1992

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Duval was formed in 1822 (1822-08-12) from St.

DUVAL created by Florida Territory from ST. JOHNS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Duval County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

996k499k1,97018301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,9704,1565,07419,43139,733113,540210,143304,029455,411571,003778,879995,567

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
Fort Caroline National MemorialPark unit15.6 km
Timucuan Ecological and Historic PreservePark unit20.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

46 cemeteries and 5 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 46 of 46 listed
NameLatLon
Anderson Cemetery30.46079-81.48953
Arlington Park Cemetery30.33246-81.59287
Bowles Cemetery30.53618-81.59765
Chapel Hills Memory Gardens30.33595-81.52465
Chapel Hills Memory Gardens30.38218-81.64704
City Cemetery30.33265-81.64814
Cosmo Cemetery30.35634-81.5158
Daniels Cemetery30.2508-81.7601
Deese Cemetery30.19114-81.92504
Dunn Creek Cemetery30.46236-81.59879
Duval County Paupers Cemetery30.38384-81.70398
Edgewood Cemetery30.37191-81.72677
Evergreen Cemetery30.36773-81.64537
Ferreira Cemetery30.50162-81.55287
Gilmore Cemetery30.35669-81.54618
Greenlawn Cemetery30.29679-81.62146
Greenwood Cemetery30.38384-81.70482
H Warren Smith Cemetery30.2891-81.40746
Hillside Cemetery Potters Field30.38731-81.70499
Jacksonville National Cemetery30.54475-81.71953
Julington Cemetery30.13857-81.56425
Lofton Cemetery30.13885-81.63398
Mandarin Cemetery30.16246-81.6487
Manning Cemetery30.20718-81.92982
Mayport Cemetery30.36393-81.42775
Memorial Cemetery30.38185-81.69581
Mount Olive Cemetery30.37496-81.68537
Oaklawn Cemetery30.26912-81.6462
Oaklawn Cemetery30.27246-81.64148
Ogilvie Cemetery30.53427-81.73104
Parrish Cemetery30.26817-81.82284
Parsons Cemetery30.37209-81.58253
Pickett Cemetery30.38571-81.67296
Pinehurst Cemetery30.38306-81.70174
Pinkston Cemetery30.33051-81.82704
Rain Cemetery30.36135-81.48258
Restlawn Memorial Park30.39634-81.69787
Riverside Memorial Park30.29829-81.76788
Saint Joseph Cemetery30.15746-81.60065
Sammis Cemetery30.32212-81.60916
Sellers Cemetery30.32216-81.86873
Talbot Island Cemetery30.45634-81.43925
The Evergreen Cemetery30.37246-81.64565
Tillotson Cemetery30.34218-81.46092
Westview Cemetery30.37107-81.73871
Whitker Cemetery30.22724-81.91128
Historical populated places — 5 of 5
NameLatLon
East Mayport30.3808-81.40814
Marshall Plantation30.15024-81.64981
San Nicolas Palica30.26691-81.61648
San Pablo Patali30.36691-81.51648
Tolomato30.23357-81.46648

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

BattlefieldStudy acresDist.Site ID
Saint John'S Bluff80216.1 kmFL003

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

HMdb link

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