Civitan Beach House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 18602-18604 Gulf Blvd., Indian Shores, 33785
When was it listed? April 2021
Category. building
Census division. Boca Ciega
National Register reference number. 100006377 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1921 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Civitan Beach House, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Civitan Beach House, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Civitan Beach House between 1993 and 2016, burning about 56 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 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	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
4 July 2015	Natural	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SEMINOLE (52)
13 July 1993	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
14 June 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 SEMINOLE PARK
14 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 102ND
26 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 WALSINGHAM
10 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	WALSINGHAM ROAD (52) **
10 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	HERITAGE VILLAGE (52) **

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Maps showing this location

11 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.

1921 USGS Sand Key quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Bay Pines quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Bay Pines quadrangle1:31680
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS St Petersburg quadrangle1:250000
1995 USGS Seminole quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 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
Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District	4.3 miles	2012
Louis Johnson Building	6.1 miles	1987
Casa De Muchas Flores	6.4 miles	1985
Maurice and Thelma Rothman House	6.7 miles	2013
Old Belleair Town Hall	7.0 miles	1994
Casa Coe da Sol	7.1 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100006377 in Record Group 79.
Pinellas County	All 72 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.