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Photograph of Fulford-By-The-Sea Monument
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fulford by the Sea Entrance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1947.

From the record

“The Fulford-By-The-Sea Monument is a historic fountain in North Miami Beach, Florida. It was built in 1925 as part of the development project by the Fulford-by-the-Sea Company.”

Wikipedia article Fulford-by-the-Sea Monument, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 2010 · category: Object.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Intersection of NE 172 St and NE 23 Ave, North Miami Beach, 33160
  • When was it listed? November 2010
  • Category. object
  • Census division. Miami
  • National Register reference number. 10000937 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1947 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 47 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Fulford by the Sea Entrance, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Fulford by the Sea Entrance, surveyed 1947

Fires near this property

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fulford by the Sea Entrance between 1992 and 2018, burning about 31 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 maintenance8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 1992Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 May 1992Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA (13)
24 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 April 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOLETA
26 March 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fulford by the Sea Entrance: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hollywood Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this property

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names North Miami Beach, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 waterspout. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010LightningNorth Miami Beach1 hurtMiami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a man struck by lightning at NE 163 Street and 10th Avenue in North Miami Beach. The victim was transported to Jackson North Hospital.
March 2003Tornado (F1)North Miami Beach$75,000no account filed
May 2005Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami Beach$10,000Two utility poles were blown down by a thunderstorm wind gust.
May 2007Flash FloodNorth Miami Beach$5,000Very heavy rains caused roads to be closed in multiple locations across North Miami Beach, with numerous reports of water-filled cars stalled at underpasses. ||Media also reported a few businesses and apartments in North Miami and North Miami Beach with water intrusion.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami Beach-A tree and several large branches down. Time was estimated based on radar.
October 2015Funnel CloudNorth Miami Beach-A funnel cloud was reported southeast of I-95 and south of NE 183rd Street.
June 2014HailNorth Miami Beach-A member of the public reported nickel sized hail in North Miami Beach.
June 2013Flash FloodNorth Miami Beach-Several sources including the broadcast media, local storm spotters and city officials reported severe flooding from a nearly stationary thunderstorm across the northeast portion of Miami-Dade County extending northward into the Hollywood area of southeast Broward County. The first report was from the media of impassable roads in the Waterways section of Aventura, north of Aventura Mall at 4:53 PM EDT with reports several minutes later from the media relayed from the Aventura Police Department that over 50 vehicles were disabled in that same area. A trained spotter at the same time reported disabled vehicles and impassable roads near NE 170th St. and NE 15th Ave. in North Miami. Several reports of flooding were received between 5:30 PM and 9 PM EDT across the same areas. Severe flooding was reported in the 1200 block of NE 144 Street which required the relocation of 24 families. City officials in Golden Beach of northeast Miami-Dade County reported hundreds of people stranded in their vehicles. An off-duty NWS employee also reported significant flooding in his condominium parking garage in Aventura. A South Florida Water Management District rain gauge recorded 13.15 inches of rain in North Miami Beach at 5:53 PM EDT with storm total at the same gauge by 9 PM EDT recording 13.94 inches. Other rainfall reports received were 11.71 inches at the FIU Biscayne Campus in North Miami Beach and 9.89 inches at North Miami/Keystone Point.
May 2006HailNorth Miami Beach-Power lines down.
May 1999WaterspoutNorth Miami Beach-An aircraft pilot reported waterspouts in the Atlantic 20 miles east of north Miami Beach.
September 1996HailNorth Miami Beach-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami Beach-no account filed
September 1996Thunderstorm WindNorth Miami Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Miami-Dade County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Old Spanish Monastery0.3 miles1972
Fisher-Sapero House4.2 miles2023
Sunshine State Arch4.2 miles2014
Building at 1291 Northeast 102nd Street4.8 miles1988
Building at 561 Northeast 101st Street5.0 miles1988
Building at 553 Northeast 101st Street5.0 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000937 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami-Dade CountyAll 191 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.
  • 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.