Mount Dora 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

“Mount Dora Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Mount Dora, Florida, Lake County. The district is roughly bounded by 3rd Avenue, 11th Avenue, Clayton Street, and Helen Street.”
Wikipedia article Mount Dora 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

Address. Roughly 3rd Ave., 11 Ave., Clayton St., Helen St., Mount Dora, 32757
When was it listed? October 2009
Category. district
Also known as. Mount Dora, FL
Census division. Mount Dora
National Register reference number. 09000777 - 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Mount Dora Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,545 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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	29
Debris and open burning	15
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 August 1993	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 August 2012	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	SHIRLEY SHORES(35)
9 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 July 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	60 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 July 2016	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SHIRLEY SHORES (35)
23 June 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	TREETOP (04)

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 Mount Dora 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

Maps showing this location

6 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Donnelly House	0.2 miles	1975
Mount Dora A. C. L. Railroad Station, Old	0.3 miles	1992
Lakeside Inn	0.3 miles	1987
Witherspoon Lodge No. 111 Free and Accepted Masons (F&AM)	0.6 miles	2009
Purdy Villa	2.4 miles	2004
Gould Hyde Norton House	3.2 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000777 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.