Richloam General Store and Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Richloam General Store and Post Office, is a general store as well as a former post office and railroad station located within the Withlacoochee State Forest in the former community of Richloam, Florida. It is located on Richloam-Clay Sink Road near the corner of Riverland Road next door to the former right-of-way of the Orange Belt Railway.”
Wikipedia article Richloam General Store and Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Hernando County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 38219 Richloam Clay Sink Rd., Webster, 33597
When was it listed? October 2017
Category. building
Census division. Ridge Manor
National Register reference number. 100001734 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Richloam General Store and Post Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,389 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 44 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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
27 August 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 August 1996	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 August 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	ROCK PILE (27)
8 July 2000	Natural	26 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 July 2006	Natural	16 acres	Florida Forest Service	60/PRICE ROAD FIRE/0821
21 July 2007	Natural	35 acres	Florida Forest Service	27/TALL GRASS/0899
21 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 July 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	60/TERRY TOWN FIRE/0799

Every fire recorded in Hernando 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 Richloam General Store and Post Office: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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	Recorded
Ridge Manor Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
E R Jahna Industries, Inc. - Mills Mine	Limestone, General	Unknown	Limestone
E.R. Jahna - Mills Mine	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone

Every working recorded in Hernando County

Maps showing this location

7 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 Plant City quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Webster quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001734 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hernando County	All 10 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.