Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1941.
From the record
“The Waldo Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Waldo, Florida. It is bounded by Northwest 1st Avenue, Main Street, Southwest 5th Boulevard, and Southwest 4th Street, encompasses approximately 560 acres (230 ha), and contains 60 historic buildings.”
Wikipedia article Waldo Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Alachua County · listed in 2001 · category: District.
National Register reference number.01000034- 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
1941 to 1991
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
50 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19411991
Fires near this property
241 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Waldo Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,663 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 22 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
65
Railroad operations and maintenance
52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
35
Debris and open burning
34
Arson/incendiarism
22
Equipment and vehicle use
17
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
2
Fireworks
2
Other causes
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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 997 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Waldo Historic District between 1850 and 1975: 521 Animalia, 389 Fungi, 55 Plantae, 15 Protozoa, 10 Chromista, 7 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. A. Arata, A. Laessle, A. S. Rhoads 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
Waldo, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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.
Small trees were blown down. Observer estimated 40-50 mph wind gusts and pea size hail along County Road 1475. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data.
Local article that documented a 5 yr old narrowly escaped injury when a tree fell through the roof of the home on Wabash Ave near Old King Rd. The boy was buried in rubble but escaped injury. The time of the event was based on radar.
Fire Rescue/EMA squad reported witnessing a brief tornado touchdown near an accident scene which damaged several structures and the roof of a wahrehouse. The initial event time was corrected based on further report from Alachua County Emergency Management.
Clay Electric Cooperative reported trees were blown down on power lines and power lines down along the Highway 301 corridor in northeast Alachua county. Most of the damage was in Waldo.
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.
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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