Built in 1878. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.
From the record
“Silver Springs is a group of artesian springs that feed into the Silver River in Marion County, Florida. It is the largest artesian spring in the world and the site of the oldest commercial tourist attraction in Florida, and was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1971.”
Wikipedia article Silver Springs (attraction), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2019 · category: District · built in 1878.
Also known as. Sarasota School of Architecture MPS
Census division. Ocala
When was it built? 1878
National Register reference number. 100004353 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1895 to 1991
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18951991
Fires near this property
158 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Silver Springs
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 479 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 15 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
32
Natural
30
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
20
Debris and open burning
18
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Arson/incendiarism
15
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Other causes
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Silver Springs: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Silver Springs, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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