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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Sneads Community House and Old Pump
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8025 Old Spanish Trail, Sneads, 32460
- When was it listed? July 2017
- Category. building
- Also known as. Florida's New Deal Resources MPS
- Census division. Sneads
- National Register reference number. 100001390 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1954 to 1994The ground this property stands on, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
130 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Sneads Community House and Old Pump between 1992 and 2020, burning about 558 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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 burning | 46 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | 28 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 73 acres | Florida Forest Service | BLUEBERRY DRIVE (32) |
| 20 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | KAVA DR (32) |
| 17 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 6 July 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 32/HOME FRONT RD-0866 |
| 12 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | JOHNSON LANE (32) |
| 8 June 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 32/MATHIS DR-0453 |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Sneads Community House and Old Pump: 4 producers, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glf Construction Corp. - Glf Borrow Pit Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Jackson Co. Bd of Co. Comm. - State Mine | Sand, Clay | Unknown | Clay, Sand | |
| Radcliff Mat. Inc.(Chattahoochee Plant) | Limestone, General | Producer | Limestone | |
| Chattahoochee Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| Dravo Basic Materials - Chattahoochee Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Sand and Gravel | |
| Norman Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| State Clay Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Ls. Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Ls. Prospect | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Prospect |
Storms near this property
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sneads, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $75,000 | A downburst damaged the Sneads Elementary School and an adjacent home. A 30-foot strip of metal below the eaves of one of the school's buildings was sheared off. A nearby tree was uprooted. Limbs and tops of trees on the school campus and surrounding woods were snapped. A portion of the nearby home's roof was damaged. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $15,000 | The Jackson County EMA reported downed trees and a barn destroyed on Ham Pond Lane. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $10,000 | A tree was blown down onto a car in Sneads. |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Jackson county. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $5,000 | Several power lines were blown down near Sneads. |
| September 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $5,000 | Multiple power poles were blown down in Sneads. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $5,000 | According to the West Florida Electric Cooperative facebook page, a tree fell on a three phase power line and knocked out power in the Sneads area to approximately 400 customers. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Sneads | $5,000 | Apparent gustnado caused minor damage to a local restaurant. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down. |
| April 2015 | Flash Flood | Sneads | $2,000 | Portions of Weddington Road were washed out with water flowing over the road. Monetary damage to the road was estimated. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | - | Numerous trees were blown down across the area. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | - | A few power lines were blown down in Jackson county. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | - | A few trees were blown down in Jackson county. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | - | A boat capsized due to strong winds in Lake Seminole. There were no injuries reported. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sneads | - | A couple of trees were blown down near Sneads. |
| March 2012 | Heavy Rain | Sneads | - | A storm total of 4.96 inches was measured at Lake Seminole near Chattahoochee. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sneads | - | An off-duty NWS meteorologist reported nickel size hail near the Sneads exit on Interstate 10. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Sneads | - | Dime size hail reported by Jackson County EMA. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Sneads | - | Dime sized hail in Sneads. |
Maps showing this location
8 surveysUnited 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.
- 1954 USGS Sneads quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Sneads quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Sneads quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001390 in Record Group 79. |
| Jackson County | All 12 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.