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Gulf County, Florida

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1925formed

14,192pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1996. Most listings are in or near Port St. Joe.

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 Gulf titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cape San Blas Lighthouse at Port St. Joe	Port St. Joe	Building	2015
Centennial Building	Port St. Joe	Building	1996
Port Theatre (Additional Documentation)	Port St. Joe	Building	2003
St. Joseph Catholic Mission Church	Port St. Joe	Building	1998

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gulf was formed in 1925 (1925-07-07) from Calhoun.

GULF created from CALHOUN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Gulf County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,182	6,951	7,460	9,937	10,658	13,332	14,192

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Forest Hill Cemetery	29.78036	-85.27322
Jehu Cemetery	30.13017	-85.19741
Kemp Cemetery	30.14998	-85.30005
Roberts Cemetery	30.05696	-85.18137
Robertson Cemetery	30.01989	-85.16528
Wetappo Cemetery	30.15021	-85.29978
Williamsburg Cemetery	30.11269	-85.2163

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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