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Photograph of Tarragona Tower
Photograph by Recury, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Tarragona Tower

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1952.

From the record

“The Tarragona Tower is a structure in Daytona Beach, Florida. Completed in 1925, the building was created to mark the entrance to the Daytona Highlands Mediterranean Revival residential development, and features a Spanish Revival design.”

Wikipedia article Tarragona Tower, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Tarragona Way and International Speedway Blvd., Dayton Beach, 32114
  • When was it listed? May 2005
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Daytona Beach
  • National Register reference number. 05000368 - 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

1952 to 1954

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 2 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Tarragona Tower, surveyed 1954
Topographic sheet covering Tarragona Tower, surveyed 1952

Fires near this property

309 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 309 fires within 5 miles of Tarragona Tower between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,464 acres in total. 91 started naturally. 39 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
Natural91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Equipment and vehicle use48
Arson/incendiarism39
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Recreation and ceremony26
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWEST TOURNAMENT (64)
5 September 2007Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- BEVILLE ROAD
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF VILLAGE LANE-0739
18 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCEDAR HIGHLANDS (64)
7 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePRIMROSE (64)

Every fire recorded in Volusia 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 Tarragona Tower: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Barbour Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Volusia Co. Rd. and Bridge - Holly Hills PitLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone

Every working recorded in Volusia 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000368 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia CountyAll 93 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.