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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Indian River County · listed in 2003 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Jungle Trail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
The listing
- Address. Bet. Old Winter Bch Rd. and FL A-1-A on Orchid Island, Orchid, 32963
- When was it listed? August 2003
- Category. structure
- Census division. Vero Beach
- National Register reference number. 03000700 - 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
1949 to 1988The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
142 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Jungle Trail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 686 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 35 |
| Natural | 32 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | (IR) GOLF COURSE (0685) |
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 140 |
| 21 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 19 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (IR) 58TH AVE FIRE (1461) |
| 18 September 1996 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | (IR) BENT PINE (694) |
| 9 August 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jungle Trail: 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Fischer & Sons,Inc. - Vickers Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Henry Fischer and Son Sand Co. -Yellow Sand Pit | Sand | Producer |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1949 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge | 4.1 miles | 1966 |
 | Bamma Vickers Lawson House | 6.3 miles | 1990 |
 | Old Town Sebastian Historic District East | 6.5 miles | 2003 |
 | Vero Railroad Station | 6.6 miles | 1987 |
 | Old Town Sebastian Historic District, West | 6.7 miles | 2004 |
| Ryburn Apartments | 6.7 miles | 2023 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 03000700 in Record Group 79. |
| Indian River County | All 31 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.
- 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.