Round Lake Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“The Round Lake Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in St. The district is roughly bounded by 5th Avenue N, 9th Street N, 13th Avenue N, and 4th Street N.”
Wikipedia article Round Lake Historic District (St. Petersburg, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 2003 · 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 5th Ave. N, 9th St. N, 13th Ave. N, and 4th St. N, St. Petersburg, 33701
When was it listed? September 2003
Category. district
Census division. St. Petersburg
National Register reference number. 03000824 - 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

1921 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 77 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Round Lake Historic District, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Round Lake Historic District, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Round Lake Historic District between 1997 and 2017, burning about 123 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
14 September 1997	Natural	11 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 26TH STREET
9 May 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 May 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 April 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 April 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
18 April 2004	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	LEALMAN
21 January 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	GANDY BLVD #1 (52)

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Round Lake Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Lease No. 1788	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pinellas County

Maps showing this location

13 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.

1921 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:31680
1947 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:25000
1956 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1956 USGS St. Petersburg quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
1998 USGS Saint Petersburg quadrangle1:24000

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
Huggins-Stengel Field	0.2 miles	2019
Boone House	0.4 miles	1986
St. Petersburg Lawn Bowling Club	0.5 miles	1980
Veillard House	0.5 miles	1982
James Henry House	0.5 miles	2013
Sanitary Public Market	0.6 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000824 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pinellas County	All 72 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.