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Photograph of Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building is a historic site in Lake Mary, Florida, United States. It is located at 158 North Country Club Road.”

Wikipedia article Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Seminole County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 158 N. Country Club Rd., Lake Mary, 32746
  • When was it listed? February 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sanford
  • National Register reference number. 04000022 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building between 1992 and 2016, burning about 656 acres in total. 5 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
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
19 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceOUT THERE (03)
15 July 2016Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBIG BEAR (59)
6 June 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 June 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 June 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 June 1994Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building: 5 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this property

22 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Mary, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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
September 2003LightningLake Mary1 killed, 2 hurtA 22 year old man was killed by lightning while fishing under a gazebo at the end of a short pier in a lake. Two teen age boys who were also in the gazebo when the lightning struck were injured.
June 2004LightningLake Mary1 hurtA power company worker was injured by a lightning strike while working on power lines.
June 2005LightningLake Mary$150,000Two homes and a sport utility vehicle were heavily damaged by fire caused by lightning in lame Mary.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindLake Mary$100,000Thunderstorm winds damaged 4 houses and blew down trees in the Lake Mary area.
March 2022HailLake Mary-A trained spotter observed two inch hail in Lake Mary on Raccoon Street.
March 2022HailLake Mary-Several reports received from the public of ping pong ball sized hail in Lake Mary.
March 2022HailLake Mary-Public observed two inch hail in Lake Mary near the intersection of Minerva Lane and Greenford Drive.
May 2020HailLake Mary-The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary.
May 2020HailLake Mary-The public reported two inch hail in Lake Mary near South Country Club Road.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-Trees downed onto five cars in the WOFL TV parking lot.
June 2008HailLake Mary-Nickel size hail fell at Lake Mary.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-Utility poles and power lines were blown down on 25th street.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-A tree was blown down on Casa Verde Boulevard.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Mary-Trees were reported down in Lake Mary and Goldenrod.
April 2003HailLake Mary-no account filed
April 2002HailLake Mary-no account filed
August 2000HailLake Mary-no account filed
May 1999HailLake Mary-no account filed
July 1997HailLake Mary-no account filed
August 1997HailLake Mary-no account filed
July 1997HailLake Mary-no account filed
June 1996HailLake Mary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seminole County

Maps showing this location

6 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
Seminole County Home1.7 miles1999
Longwood Hotel4.3 miles1984
Longwood Historic District4.4 miles1990
Sanford Grammar School4.5 miles1984
Sanford Residential Historic District4.6 miles1989
Old Fernald-Laughton Memorial Hospital4.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000022 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seminole CountyAll 19 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.