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Photograph of Red Barn
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Red Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

“The Red Barn is a historic barn located on the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation in Glades County, Florida. It was built in 1941 with help from the Civilian Conservation Corps to serve the Seminole cattle business.”

Wikipedia article Red Barn (Okeechobee, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Glades County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 3 mi. W of Co. Rd. 721 on Co. Rd. 721A, Okeechobee, 34974
  • When was it listed? December 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Northeast Glades
  • National Register reference number. 08001243 - 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 Red Barn, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet covering Red Barn, surveyed 1953

Fires near this property

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Red Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,453 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 21 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
Debris and open burning61
Natural32
Equipment and vehicle use25
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1

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
26 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSeminole TribeTIRE
21 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePOPE (22)
25 August 1993Natural1.0 acresSeminole Tribenot named
23 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreSeminole TribeDEBRIS FIRE 2
1 August 2020Debris and open burning3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBULL (22)
8 July 2015Fireworks1.0 acresSeminole TribeFIRE CRACKER
4 July 2006Natural35 acresSeminole TribeINDEPEN.FIRE
31 July 2019Naturalunder an acreSeminole TribeLIGHTNING STRIKE

Every fire recorded in Glades County

Maps showing this location

6 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 08001243 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glades CountyAll 3 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.