Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1937.
From the record
“Rita's Colored Catholic Mission is a historic building in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, United States. Built in 1899 as Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Faulkner Street, it was relocated to 314 Duss Street in 1956 to serve as a Catholic Mission to the African-American community.”
Wikipedia article St. Rita's Colored Catholic Mission, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.07000280- 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
1937 to 1954
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
17 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19371954
Fires near this property
180 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 180 fires within 5 miles of St. Rita's Colored Catholic Mission
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,542 acres in total. 77 started naturally. 15 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
77
Equipment and vehicle use
36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
27
Arson/incendiarism
15
Railroad operations and maintenance
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Debris and open burning
4
Recreation and ceremony
3
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 St. Rita's Colored Catholic Mission: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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