Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Built 1949. Added to the National Register in 1984, and a National Historic Landmark.
The record
| Property type | Historic district |
| Address | Launch Pads 5, 6, 13, 14, 19, 26, 34 and Mission Control Center, Cocoa, FL |
| County | Brevard County |
| Listed | Apr 16, 1984 |
| Listed for | Engineering, Transportation, Science, Communications |
| Level of significance | National |
| Reference number | 84003872 |
| Built | 1949 · more from the 1940s |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | Launch Pads 5, 6, 13, 14, 19, 26, 34 and Mission Control Center, Cocoa, FL |
| Coordinates | 28.4889° N, 80.5778° W · Directions ↗ |
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Map
Nearby in Brevard County
Public land around it
| Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge ↗National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | About 5 miles away129,991 acres |
Wilderness Atlas publishes a centroid and an acreage for each unit, not a boundary line. Distance here is measured to a circle of the same area drawn around that centroid, so treat it as roughly right rather than surveyed.
Local history books for Brevard County
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Guidebooks to historic places in Florida
- Florida's Museums and Cultural AttractionsMurray D. Laurie and Doris Bardon, 2016Find at Bookshop.org
Titles come from Open Library's catalog, matched by subject heading or by title.
Reference
Questions people ask
When was Cape Canaveral Air Force Station listed on the National Register?
Apr 16, 1984. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.
Source: National Park Service
When was Cape Canaveral Air Force Station built?
1949.
Source: Wikidata
Where is Cape Canaveral Air Force Station?
Launch Pads 5, 6, 13, 14, 19, 26, 34 and Mission Control Center, Cocoa, Brevard County, Florida.
Source: National Park Service
Where is the nomination form for Cape Canaveral Air Force Station?
The National Archives holds the nomination form, the document that made the case for listing.
Source: National Archives
Sources
Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. The map point comes from Wikidata. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 84003872. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.