Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.
“The Monroe Station was a historic gas station, restaurant and bar in Ochopee, Florida. It was located at the junction of Tamiami Trail and Loop Road.”
Wikipedia article Monroe Station (Ochopee, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Collier County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Monroe Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,803 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 5 were 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 | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | GRIMEY |
| 25 August 2015 | Natural | 60 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | MONROE |
| 22 August 1993 | Natural | 17 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | GANNETT 41 |
| 20 August 2012 | Natural | 1,220 acres | Big Cypress National Preserve | MONROE SOUTH |
| 17 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | MM61 |
| 16 August 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | Q10OASIS |
| 12 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | CON CLUB |
| 1 August 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Big Cypress National Preserve | CAR |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ochopee, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 3 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2017 | Tornado (EF1) | Ochopee | - | NWS storm survey determined damage including leaning wood power poles along US 41 and SR 29 were due to a tornado. Time estimated by radar. |
| July 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Ochopee | - | A Coop Observer saw a funnel cloud. |
| March 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Ochopee | - | A fire chief photographed a tornado near the intersection of U.S. 41 and SR 29. The tornado did no known damage. |
| July 2003 | Tornado (F0) | Ochopee | - | A pilot saw a brief tornado touchdown in the everglades south of I-75. |
United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000427 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Collier County | All 12 listed properties in this county. |
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