Mound House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 451 Connecticut St., Fort Meyers Beach, 33931
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. building
Census division. Estero Island
National Register reference number. 100002723 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Mound House between 1992 and 2014, burning about 212 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
1 July 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 June 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 June 2007	Fireworks	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	36/ THE WINKLER FIRE
20 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	36/ THE OLD SOUTH FIRE
13 June 1992	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 May 2012	Natural	50 acres	Florida Forest Service	E.B.P. 2 (36)
22 May 2013	Natural	65 acres	Florida Forest Service	ISLAND PARK (36)
22 May 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Lee 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.

1956 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Fort Myers Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1958 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Naples quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1987 USGS West Palm Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

3 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
Fort Myers Beach School	0.7 miles	1999
Sanibel Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters	5.4 miles	1974
Koreshan Unity Settlement Historic District	7.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002723 in Record Group 79.
Lee County	All 50 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.