Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.
From the record
“The Thursby House located at Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, Florida, was constructed in 1872. The house was once a two-story structure built from three kinds of center-cut pine that had been milled in Savannah, Georgia, and transported by boat to the site.”
Wikipedia article Louis P. Thursby House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00000468- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
188 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Louis P. Thursby House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 21 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
50
Equipment and vehicle use
35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
30
Arson/incendiarism
21
Railroad operations and maintenance
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
12
Recreation and ceremony
12
Debris and open burning
8
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Other causes
2
Fireworks
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Orange City, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
A National Weather Service Damage Survey confirmed that a brief EF-0 tornado impacted the Sunset Hills subdivision east of Orange City. The tornado tracked along a 0.1 mile long path, with maximum winds estimated between 65-75 mph. The tornado had a maximum width of approximately 70 yards. Several large tree branches were downed on both sides of County Road 4101, between Sunnyside Ave and E Graves Ave. A mobile home was destroyed after its roof caved in at the intersection of Sunnyside Ave and County Road 4101. Preliminary damage estimates from the Volusia County Property Appraiser was $40,000, with one structure destroyed. There were no reported injuries or fatalities.
Strong winds blew down trees and power lines along Benham Ave from 20th Street to 17th Street in Orange City. Reports, pictures, and videos from Twitter and WFTV.
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.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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