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Photograph of Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Manatee County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1505 Center Rd., Terra Ceia, 34250
  • When was it listed? September 2003
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Clubhouses of Florida's Woman's Clubs MPS
  • Census division. Palmetto
  • National Register reference number. 03000942 - 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 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 September 1993Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
6 July 2002Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2014Natural2.2 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGATEWAY BLVD (41)
15 June 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service41-3 PILE FIRE-0481
4 May 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 May 2009Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresFlorida Forest Service41-BISHOP HARBOR FIRE-0313

Every fire recorded in Manatee County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Terra Ceia Village Improvement Association Hall: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Dolomite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Palmetto Cement PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Palmetto Dolomite QuarryDolomitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Manatee County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terra Ceia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2001Thunderstorm WindTerra Ceia$50,000The Florida Highway Patrol reported thunderstorm winds downed several light poles along the Sunshine Skywarn Bridge (I-275) near Terra Ceia in Manatee county.
October 2015Tornado (EF0)Terra Ceia$12,000Multiple reports were received of a waterspout that formed over the Tampa Bay and came onshore as a brief tornado near the southern end of the Skyway Bridge. The tornado crossed Interstate 275 and caused damage to a trailer. Track location was estimated based off of amateur video.

Every storm recorded in Manatee County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Palmetto Armory3.8 miles2012
Woman's Club of Palmetto3.9 miles1986
Palmetto Historic District4.0 miles1986
Judah P. Benjamin Memorial4.8 miles1970
DeSoto National Memorial5.1 miles1966
Richardson House5.1 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000942 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manatee CountyAll 30 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.
  • 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.