Built in 1941. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1952.
From the record
“The Archbold Biological Station (ABS) is a research institute with a surrounding 5,192.63-acre (21 km2) estate near Lake Placid, Florida, US, in Highlands County. It is a venue for field research and education, as well as ranching.”
Wikipedia article Archbold Biological Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Highlands County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1941.
National Register reference number.07000698- 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
1956 to 1988
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19561988
Fires near this property
43 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Archbold Biological Station at Red Hill
between 1993 and 2018, burning about 6,548 acres in total. 15 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
15
Railroad operations and maintenance
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Debris and open burning
5
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
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 National Weather Service names
Venus, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 2 tornado, 1 dust devil, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death. 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 32-year-old woman in Venus died from injuries after a tornado threw her 200 feet away from her home. She was found cradling her 3-year-old daughter in her arms who survived.
Tornado damage was first observed near the intersection of County|Rd 731 and Alphonso Lane, where several hardwood oaks had large|branches snapped along with a home with roof and garage damage.|The track continued north along Alphonso Lane producing roof|damage to an additional home and shed, while snapping several|pine trees and uprooting a few palm trees. A small storage|structure was destroyed and multiple long trailers, a large|pickup truck and horse trailer were overturned at one residence,|while another had a speedboat knocked into it after being blown|off its trailer. Another residence had a RV moved about 100 yards|from a carport, with an ATV at the location flipped. The damage|path continued north for another quarter-mile, snapping two large|oak trees near the trunk before becoming difficult to discern|thereafter, with the tornado estimated to have dissipated. Maximum estimated winds were 105 mph.
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.
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.
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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