Lake Butler Woman's Club

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The Lake Butler Woman's Club, also known as the Old Union County Courthouse, is an historic building now located at 285 NE First Avenue in Lake Butler, Union County, Florida. It was built in 1923 on the site of the present Union County Courthouse.”
Wikipedia article Lake Butler Woman's Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 285 NE First Ave., Lake Butler, 32054
When was it listed? December 2003
Category. building
Also known as. Clubhouses of Florida's Woman's Clubs MPS
Census division. Lake Butler
National Register reference number. 03001309 - 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.

Fires near this property

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Lake Butler Woman's Club between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,849 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 9 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
Natural	35
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Debris and open burning	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
6 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	186TH PLACE (63)
29 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SR 100 (63)
16 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	03-63- 237 FIRE -1250
6 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	03-63-SINCLAIR BRYANT RD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

37 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Butler, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 wildfire. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$8,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down. One vehicle was also damaged.
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$6,000	Roof damage to home and numerous large trees were blown down.
January 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew the roof off a house and downed trees and power lines.
November 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$4,000	Large tree limbs were blown down on 1st Street.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$3,500	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$2,500	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
February 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$2,000	Large trees down near state road 121 and county road 231.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$2,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$1,000	Multiple trees were reported down across SW SR 121 especially at the intersections of SW 76th St and SW 92nd St. Powerlines were reported down in Lake Butler and a power pole was leaning along SW 7th St. EM reported a gust of 42 mph. Time was estimated by radar.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$1,000	Large trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$500	A tree was blown down across SW 92nd Street. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was estimated.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$300	Large tree limbs were blown down.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	$100	Large trees down on Lake Ave. and also on 3rd Ave.
March 2021	Heavy Rain	Lake Butler	-	A stationed at the Union County EOC measured 2.48 inches since midnight.
March 2021	Heavy Rain	Lake Butler	-	A station measured 4.29 inches since midnight.
December 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	A tree branched punctured a home wall in Lake Butler due to strong winds. No injuries were reported.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	Numerous tree were blown down across the local area per a report from a Circle K gas station employee.
July 2019	Heavy Rain	Lake Butler	-	Daily storm total rainfall thus far for the day was 2.25 inches.
February 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down.
August 2016	Heavy Rain	Lake Butler	-	Minor street flooding was reported of SW 9th Street in Lake Butler near the Union County High School.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	Power lines were blown down on SW 8th Street.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	Trees were blown down along SW 73rd way. The time of damage was based on radar.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	County central dispatch reported a tree down at NW 2nd Street in Lake Butler.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in Lake Butler.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Butler	-	Power lines were blown west of and near Lake Butler.
May 2003	Lightning	Lake Butler	-	Mobile home set on fire by lightning strike.
April 1999	Wildfire	Lake Butler	-	Reports that two fires caused by lightning strikes.
July 1998	Wildfire	Lake Butler	-	13,000 acres.
February 2006	Hail	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
July 2004	Funnel Cloud	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
July 2000	Funnel Cloud	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
February 1998	Hail	Lake Butler	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Lake Butler	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Lake Butler quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
John A. King House	0.2 miles	2004
Townsend Building	0.4 miles	1992
James W. Townsend House	0.4 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001309 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 4 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.
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.