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One of 31 National Register listings published here for Indian River County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Frank and Stella Heiser House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Heiser, Frank and Stella, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 11055 138th Ave., Fellsmere, 32948
- When was it listed? November 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. Fellsmere
- National Register reference number. 100001862 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1949 to 1988The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 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
122 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Frank and Stella Heiser House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,906 acres in total. 71 started naturally. 5 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 | 71 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | FITZROY (31) |
| 6 August 2008 | Natural | 25 acres | Florida Forest Service | (IR) OUT OF GAS (0556) |
| 5 August 2008 | Natural | 13 acres | Florida Forest Service | NORTH LINE (05) |
| 30 August 2011 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | DEEP DITCH (31) |
| 3 August 1992 | Natural | 35 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 25 August 1993 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 August 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Storms near this property
15 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fellsmere, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Flood | Fellsmere | $400,000 | Emergency management confirmed a total of ten buildings with water intrusion in Fellsmere and Vero Lake Estates. Also reports that all lanes of 101st Ave were closed at 85th St in Vero Lake Estates. There was a petroleum spill due to eight stalled vehicles. In addition, all lanes of 79th St were closed in Fellsmere and two vehicles were stalled in Fellsmere due to the flooding rain. |
| September 2017 | Flash Flood | Fellsmere | $50,000 | Excessive rainfall from Hurricane Irma produced flash flooding in Fellsmere. Indian River County Sheriffs and Fellsmere Police rescued 12 people from flood waters and transported them in a high-water vehicle to the nearby Fellsmere Elementary School evacuation shelter, which was also surrounded by high water and impassible. |
| June 2002 | Flash Flood | Fellsmere | $10,000 | Flooding from heavy rains rendered some roads impassable and flooded two homes in the Fellsmere area. |
| November 2023 | Heavy Rain | Fellsmere | - | Weather underground site KFLFELLS9 measured 8.09 inches of rainfall. Emergency management reports most streets in Fellsmere have water covering them, up to a foot of standing water reported in some locations. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | Fellsmere Police Department reported nickel to quarter size hail. |
| April 2016 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | An Indian River County Emergency Management official observed quarter size hail in Fellsmere during a severe thunderstorm. Photos confirmed the hail size. |
| May 2012 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | A storm chaser reported nickel sized hail just east of Fellsmere during a strong thunderstorm. |
| February 2007 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Funnel Cloud | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Hail | Fellsmere | - | no account filed |
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.
- 1949 USGS Fellsmere quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Fellsmere quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1985 USGS Vero Beach quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
Listed places nearby
4 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Marian Fell Library | 1.8 miles | 1996 |
| Fellsmere Historic District | 1.9 miles | 2021 | |
 | First Methodist Episcopal Church | 1.9 miles | 1996 |
 | Fellsmere Public School | 2.1 miles | 1996 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001862 in Record Group 79. |
| Indian River 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.
- 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.