Laroe Family Homestead Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“LaRoe Family Homestead Historic District is a historic district in Eustis, Florida, near the corner of West County Road 44 and East Orange Avenue. It consists of a complex of buildings, nine of which are contributing properties to the district.”
Wikipedia article LaRoe Family Homestead Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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 9 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3430 W. Co. Rd. 44 & 2891 E. Orange Ave., Eustis, 32726
When was it listed? June 2009
Category. district
Census division. Eustis
National Register reference number. 09000493 - 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Laroe Family Homestead Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,049 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 7 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	32
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
21 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MILLS ST (35)
4 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 August 1993	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
31 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 July 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 June 2001	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 June 2003	Natural	26 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Laroe Family Homestead Historic District: 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Diatomite, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Codding Sand and Soil Co. - Codding Pit	Sand	Producer
Coddings Sand and Sail Inc.	Clay	Unknown
Unnamed Diatomite Deposit	Diatomite	Prospect

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eustis, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2003	Lightning	Eustis	1 hurt, $8,000	A female student was burned by a piece of power transformer on top of a pole that was struck by lightning. Pieces of the shattered transformer flew through an open window on a school bus and landed on the student's leg.
September 2007	Tornado (EF1)	Eustis	$6,200,000	A tornado touched down in the Town of Eustis at the northern end of West Crooked Lake. The tornado quickly intensified to EF1 strength as it moved north northwest through Eustis. The track was just under two miles long and had a maximum width of 300 yards. The tornado destroyed 7 homes. Twenty seven homes received major damage and 81 homes reported minor damage. There were no serious injuries and property damage was set at $6.2 million.
August 1993	Hail	Eustis	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds ripped off about 30 feet of roofing from a workshop and blew it 100 feet. Nickel-size hail fell.
August 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Eustis	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds ripped off about 30 feet of roofing from a workshop and blew it 100 feet. Nickel-size hail fell.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Eustis	$30,000	Severe thunderstorms blew down numerous trees and power lines and severely damaged the roof and a large door at a car dealership in Eustis. Trees also fell on a pickup truck.
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Eustis	$5,000	Several trees were topped due to the passage of squalls associated with Hurricane Hermine. Trees and powerlines were reported downed from Tavares to Eustis to Mt. Dora.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Eustis	$2,000	Trees were blown down on Washington Avenue in Eustis.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Eustis	$2,000	Local law enforcement reported trees blown down on Washington Avenue in Eustis.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Eustis	-	Local broadcast media relayed reports of a large tree that fell on a house on West Crooked Lake Place in Eustis, and other large tree limbs were down on adjacent properties.
June 2015	Hail	Eustis	-	Several reports of dime to quarter sized hail across Eustis and Mount Dora were received via social media.
October 2008	Hail	Eustis	-	Nickel size hail was reported.
October 2006	Hail	Eustis	-	Nickel size hail was reported in Eustis.
May 2003	Hail	Eustis	-	no account filed
September 2000	Hail	Eustis	-	no account filed
October 1996	Tornado (F0)	Eustis	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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.

1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Eustis quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Moses J. Taylor House	1.1 miles	1997
Gould Hyde Norton House	1.4 miles	1997
William Kimbrough Pendleton House	1.6 miles	1983
Woman's Club of Eustis	1.6 miles	1991
Edgar L. Ferran House	1.7 miles	2019
Eustis Commercial Historic District	1.9 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000493 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 31 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.