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Flagler County, Florida

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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13historic places

—earliest paper

1917formed

115,378pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Bunnell, Palm Coast, Espanola.

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 Flagler titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bulow Plantation Ruins	Bunnell	Building	1970
Bunnell City Hall	Bunnell	Building	2019
Bunnell State Bank Building, Old	Bunnell	Building	1992
Bunnell Water Tower	Bunnell	Structure	2019
Cherokee Grove	Bunnell	Building	1997
Dixie Highway-Hastings, Espanola and Bunnell Road	Espanola	Structure	2005
Espanola Schoolhouse	Bunnell	Building	2020
Holden House	Bunnell	Building	2018
Mala Compra Plantation Archeological Site	Palm Coast	Site	2004
Marine Studios	Marineland	District	1986
St. Mary Catholic Church	Bunnell	Building	2024
Vocational Agriculture Building	Bunnell	Building	2007
Washington Oaks Historic District	Palm Coast	District	2009

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Flagler was formed in 1917 (1917-06-12) from St.

FLAGLER created from ST. JOHNS and VOLUSIA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Flagler County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,442	3,008	3,367	4,566	10,913	49,832	115,378

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).

Site	Type	Dist.
Fort Matanzas National Monument	Park unit	28.9 km
Castillo De San Marcos National Monument	Park unit	47.1 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

4 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Espanola Cemetery	29.5033	-81.32395
Good Hope Cemetery	29.47175	-81.17451
Hope Cemetery	29.46691	-81.25534
Saint Marys Cemetery	29.39553	-81.19534

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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