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Photograph of Seminole Inn
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Seminole Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

“The Seminole Inn, also known as the Seminole Country Inn, is a Mission Revival style historic hotel located at 15885 Southeast Warfield Boulevard in Indiantown, Florida. Davies Warfield, who was president of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which developed Indiantown, while Henry Stephen Harvey of the West Palm Beach architectural firm Harvey and Clarke designed the building.”

Wikipedia article Seminole Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 2006 · 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. 15885 SE Warfield Blvd., Indiantown, 34956
  • When was it listed? May 2006
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Indiantown
  • Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 06000442 - 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

1953 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Seminole Inn, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Seminole Inn, surveyed 1953

Fires near this property

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Seminole Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,304 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 8 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
Natural35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
4 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 1999Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2014Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWER LINES (43)
30 July 2016Natural9.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePAYSON PARK II (43)
30 July 1993Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 July 1998Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 July 1997Natural35 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Seminole Inn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Indiantown Steel MillIronProducer

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Indiantown, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2011Tornado (EF0)Indiantown$207,000A thunderstorm quickly intensified southwest of Indiantown and produced a brief, but high-end EF0 tornado in rural area north of the town center. A NWS damage survey estimated maximum winds of 80-85 mph. The tornado caused mainly light damage to a two-story home (several windows blown in, vinyl siding removed, soffit damaged), caused the roof of a pole barn to collapse upon itself, and totally removed the roof of an adjacent commercial building (VFW lodge). Several large tree branches were downed and one tall pine tree was uprooted. DI1 DOD5 LB, DI2 DOD2 EXP, DOD28 DI3 EXP.
May 2025HailIndiantown-Trained spotter in Indiantown reports hail up to 2 inches in diameter.
May 2016Dust DevilIndiantown-A large dust devil formed in Indiantown and lasted approximately three minutes. Video of the event was obtained.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindIndiantown-A Skywarn spotter reported an observed 64 mph wind gust on State Route 710 near Indiantown.
February 2010Thunderstorm WindIndiantown-Several reports of downed trees on SW Farm Road, between Carrier Street and 169th Avenue. Reports relayed by Martin County Emergency Management.
November 2005Heavy RainIndiantown-Spotter reports and satellite and radar estimates indicate from 4 to 5 inches of rain fell across Martin County.
August 2004Funnel CloudIndiantown-A spotter reported a funnel cloud near Indiantown.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindIndiantown-Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs and power lines in western Martin County.
May 2007HailIndiantown-no account filed
July 2007HailIndiantown-no account filed
July 2003HailIndiantown-no account filed
March 2002HailIndiantown-no account filed
May 2002HailIndiantown-no account filed
May 1999HailIndiantown-no account filed
May 1998HailIndiantown-no account filed
March 1996HailIndiantown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 06000442 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Martin CountyAll 14 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.