Historic Old Town Commercial District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1945.

From the record

“The Historic Old Town Commercial District is a U.S. historic district located in Lake Worth Beach, Florida. The district is bounded by the Florida East Coast Railway, M Street, Lucerne Avenue, and 1st Avenue South, according to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), while the city of Lake Worth Beach extends the eastern boundary to Federal Highway.”
Wikipedia article Historic Old Town Commercial District, 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 listing

Address. Bounded by FEC, M St., Lucerne Ave., and 1st Ave. S, Lake Worth, 33460
When was it listed? September 2001
Category. district
Census division. Lake Worth
National Register reference number. 01001011 - 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

1945 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 11 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Historic Old Town Commercial District, surveyed 1956

Topographic sheet covering Historic Old Town Commercial District, surveyed 1945

Fires near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Historic Old Town Commercial District between 2002 and 2008, burning about 12 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
3 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	MINOR ROAD FIRE
22 May 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CONGRESS COMMAND
19 April 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.2 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

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.

1945 USGS Lake Worth quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1949 USGS Lake Worth 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
Lake Worth City Hall, Old	0.1 miles	1989
Old Lucerne Historic Residential District	0.4 miles	2001
Gulf Stream Hotel	0.5 miles	1983
Osborne School	1.6 miles	2003
College Park Historic District	1.6 miles	2001
Eastover	3.5 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001011 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.