College Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1946.

From the record

“The College Park Historic District is a residential historic district located in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, United States, that was designated on February 9, 2001. The district is bounded by the northern halves of Columbia Drive and Wellesley Drive to the north and south, respectively; North Federal Highway to the east; and North Dixie Highway to the west.”
Wikipedia article College Park Historic District (Lake Worth Beach, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Palm Beach County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Maryland Dr., N. Federal Hwy., 19th Ave. N., and N. Dixie Hwy., Lake Worth, 33460
When was it listed? February 2001
Category. district
Census division. Lake Worth
National Register reference number. 01000078 - 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

1946 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 10 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering College Park Historic District, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheet covering College Park Historic District, surveyed 1946

Fires near this property

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of College Park Historic District in 2007, burning about 1 acre in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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	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
22 May 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CONGRESS COMMAND

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

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.

1946 USGS Palm Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1950 USGS Palm Beach quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1985 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Old Lucerne Historic Residential District	1.5 miles	2001
Historic Old Town Commercial District	1.6 miles	2001
Lake Worth City Hall, Old	1.7 miles	1989
Gulf Stream Hotel	1.8 miles	1983
Central Park Historic District	2.6 miles	1999
Vedado Historic District	2.7 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000078 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Palm Beach County	All 74 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.