Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1950.
From the record
“The Keith Cabin is a historic house located at 1320 CR 179, northwest of Bonifay and west of Bethlehem in Holmes County, Florida. It was deemed significant "as an excellent and rare example of a 19th century log cabin built with a 'Louisiana' roof.”
Wikipedia article Keith Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 2 National Register listings published here for Holmes County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.00001281- 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.
Then and now
1950 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19501994
Fires near this property
111 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Keith Cabin
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 977 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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
29
Railroad operations and maintenance
23
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Natural
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Arson/incendiarism
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Smoking
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
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 federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Keith Cabin: 1 prospect, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Pittman, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 flash flood.
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.
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.
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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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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