Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.
From the record
“The City of Alachua Downtown Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Alachua, Florida. It encompasses approximately 490 acres (2.0 km2), bounded by Northwest 150th Avenue, Northwest 145th Terrace, Northwest 143rd Place and Northwest 138th Terrace.”
Wikipedia article City of Alachua Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Alachua County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
National Register reference number.00000787- 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
133 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 133 fires within 5 miles of City of Alachua Downtown Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 706 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning
40
Railroad operations and maintenance
33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
25
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Natural
3
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
1
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. Museums hold 3,529 specimens
collected within 10 miles of City of Alachua Downtown Historic District between 1842 and 1975: 1,242 Animalia, 1,126 Fungi, 830 Protozoa, 270 Plantae, 36 Unrecorded, 25 Chromista.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A W Chapman, A. Gholson Jr. and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Alachua, the town this property stands in, in 33 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 3 heavy rain, 2 lightning.
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 Kangaroo Express Gas Station employee reported he had several trees blown down at his residence along Highway 441 in Alachua. The time of the report was based on Doppler radar.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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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