Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1948.
From the record
“The Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District, also known as Trapper Nelson Hunting Camp and Trapper Nelson Interpretive Site, is an historic district located south of Hobe Sound, Florida, in the United States. It is inside Jonathan Dickinson State Park at 16450 Southeast Federal Highway.”
Wikipedia article Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Martin County · listed in 2006 · category: District.
National Register reference number.06000918- 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
88 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,041 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 2 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
36
Misuse of fire by a minor
12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
11
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Debris and open burning
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Recreation and ceremony
4
Smoking
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Fireworks
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Hobe Sound, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 4 tornado, 3 funnel cloud.
The reports record 2 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.
A thunderstorm with infrequent lightning produced a strike which hit a construction crane and injured two nearby workers. The two men were transported to a nearby hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
A NWS Storm Survey confirmed a zone of straight-line wind damage approximately aligned northeast to southwest, approximately one-third of a mile long and up to about 300 feet wide, affecting the Woodbridge Mobile Home park in the town of Hobe Sound. Twenty mobile homes sustained wind damage. Carports and awnings were removed from homes, and several homes had parts of their metal roofs peeled back. Two large trees sustained damage, primarily from debris impact. Damage estimates totalled $150,000.
Using a combination of reports from Martin County Emergency Management and radar dual polarimetric data, the National Weather Service in Melbourne can confirm that a tornado moved northward out of Jupiter (Palm Beach County) and into far southern Martin County. This is associated with the Palm Beach Gardens tornado that was recorded by the National Weather Service Miami Office. ||Radar data suggests the circulation was weakening as it moved into Martin County before crossing I-95 around Mile Marker 91. A report from Florida Highway Patrol indicated the tornado produced tree damage and flipped a tractor trailer at this location. The tornado subsequently moved into Jonathan Dickinson State Park where it believed to have lifted.
An F0 tornado touched down briefly along US Highway 708 about 5 miles west of Hobe Sound. The tornado struck an animal hospital, damaging the roof of the structure, overturning a small trailer and damaging the roof of a barn. A few trees were also blown down
Persistent heavy rainbands from Tropical Storm Isaac produced widespread urban and lowland flooding across much of the county. Rainfall from the morning of August 26 until the evening of August 27 averaged 5 to 10 inches, with isolated totals of 12 to 14 inches, most of which fell during the morning and afternoon of August 27. The most significant impacts occurred in and near Jensen Beach, Stuart, Palm City, and Port Salerno. Several roads became temporarily impassible due to standing water. Water entered one complex in Palm City, comprised of multiple businesses.
A localized damaging wind event occurred in Tequesta during a strong thunderstorm, with maximum winds of near 55 mph. Several power-poles sustained damage along with numerous power-lines being knocked down. A tree was also toppled. Photos from local emergency management and news media were obtained along with information from an eyewitness.
The F0 tornado that touched down to the west lifted for about five miles and then touched down briefly in the Banner Lake area of Hobe Sound near the intersection of Federal Highway and US Highway 708. The only reported damage was a few downed trees and power lines.
The tornado touched down in a wooded area to the west of US-1 around 10:37 AM, very near the Island Mall shopping plaza. The system crossed US-1 where it continued to produced a swath of mainly vegetative damage, with numerous trees felled within the parking lot of a second shopping plaza. The circulation moved east toward A1A where additional damage to softwood and hardwood trees was noted in the vicinity of Hobe Sound Elementary School.||The most notable damage was along Bridge Road just before where the road crosses the Indian River Lagoon. Here, a total of 20 to 25 large ficus trees were toppled (uprooted) as a result of wind gusts that peaked between 85 to 95 mph. The tornado moved over the Indian River Lagoon and into Jupiter Island where more trees were|felled from peak winds of 75 to 85 mph. Finally, the circulation moved into the Atlantic Ocean where it briefly became a waterspout before dissipating.||The vast majority of damage related to this tornado was confined to vegetation, most notably hardwood and softwood trees. Only minor structural damage, including a home|with torn shingles and a grocery store with limited roof damage, was noted during the survey.
Local broadcast media reported a large tree was downed across Southeast Duncan Street and Southeast Flamingo Street in Hobe Sound, blocking the road. Numerous other trees sustained minor to moderate damage in the area.
Multi-day rainfall totals reached 6-12 inches across much of eastern Martin County. The highest measured rain gauge totals were 8.49 inches near Hobe Sound and 8.01 inches at the Stuart COOP site. Temporary flooding of roadways, parking lots and yards occurred as retention ponds and drainage canals overflowed their banks.
Heavy rain over Martin County produced flooded roads in Palm City and near Stuart. Spotters reported four to six inches of rainfall from Indiantown to the coast.
Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines and produced one inch hail in Hobe Sound. Falling trees damaged one home and hail cracked car windshields.
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.
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.
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.
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