Ormond Fire House

Built in 1937 (Spanish Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1937.

From the record

“The Ormond Fire House is a historic building located at 160 East Granada Boulevard in Ormond Beach, Florida. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 2010.”
Wikipedia article Ormond Fire House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1937, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture.

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 2 structuress, 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 160 E Granada Blvd, Ormond Beach
When was it listed? December 2010
Category. building
Census division. North Peninsula
When was it built? 1937
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10001033 - 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

1937 to 1954

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 17 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Ormond Fire House, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheet covering Ormond Fire House, surveyed 1937

Fires near this property

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Ormond Fire House between 1992 and 2017, burning about 243 acres in total. 21 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
16 September 2007	Natural	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF-NE BROADWAY POWERLINE
11 September 1992	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 August 2008	Natural	70 acres	Florida Forest Service	TOMOKA RIVER FIRE
3 August 1993	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 August 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 August 2011	Natural	4.7 acres	Florida Forest Service	BULOW CREEK RD #2 (18)
14 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this property

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ormond Beach, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 9 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 3 deaths and 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	1 killed, 1 hurt	Reports from Ormond Beach police and multiple local broadcast media indicated two people were injured when a large tree fell onto them in Ormond Beach. Both men were unloading furniture from a truck in the driveway of a home near Arroyo Parkway when the tree fell, and were transported to a local hospital with injuries. One man suffered a critical head injury during the incident and died the following day (July 23).
October 2004	Rip Current	Ormond Beach	1 killed	A 24 year old man visiting from Germany drowned in a rip current at Ormond Beach.
October 2004	Rip Current	Ormond Beach	1 killed	A 55 year old man drowned in a rip current at Ormond Beach after rescuing his 10 year old son.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	$50,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees, bent or broke telephone poles, and damaged mobile homes.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	$2,000	Ormond Beach dispatch reported trees down on power lines at Nova Road.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	$2,000	no account filed
July 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Ormond Beach	$1,000	Volusia County Beach Patrol witnessed a waterspout moving onshore the beach, then meandering southward along the beach, into backyards of some residences adjacent to beach and back into the near-shore Atlantic waters. The beach patrol indicated that multiple vortices formed, dissipated and re-formed along the indicated north-south track. The tornado tossed some light chairs and tables in a backyard just inland from the beach and also moved a small catamaran from the upper part of the beach to the surf-line and snapped the mast. Circular marks were evident in the beach sand where the tornado crossed from the backyards to the ocean, near the location of the deposited catamaran. The tornado was rated at the minimum end of the EF-0 range (65 mph).
September 2023	Heavy Rain	Ormond Beach	-	Weather Underground site KFLORMON18 measured 5.43 inches of rain for the date through the time of observation.
September 2023	Heavy Rain	Ormond Beach	-	Weather Underground site KFLORMON188 measured 5.73 inches of rain for the date through the time of observation.
March 2018	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail in Ormond Beach.
September 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Ormond Beach	-	Based on a NWS storm survey, a waterspout moved onshore from the Halifax River near Dix Avenue and North Beach Street in Ormond Beach, causing tree damage and minor siding and shingle damage to a few two story homes. The tornado continued inland and produced strong EF-1 damage (estimated 100 to 110 mph) to several homes and trees near the intersection of Hernandez Avenue, North Ridgewood Avenue and Rosewood Avenue. Several homes sustained major roof damage. The tornado then downed trees and produced debris impact at the Ormond Beach Fire Station 93 and damaging the roofs of two commercial buildings near US Highway 1 and Wilmette Avenue. The tornado dissipated just west of US Highway 1. DI2, DOD6, LB-EXP.
July 2014	Funnel Cloud	Ormond Beach	-	A storm chaser observed a funnel cloud form just ahead of a line of strong thunderstorms approaching the coast at Ormond Beach.
June 2011	Funnel Cloud	Ormond Beach	-	A funnel cloud was reported by the public near Ormond Beach.
July 2011	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	A spotter observed penny sized hail north of Ormond Beach in the Northbrook subdivision.
January 2010	Funnel Cloud	Ormond Beach	-	Weather observer at Daytona Beach International Airport (KDAB) observed a funnel cloud to the northeast for nearly 20 minutes before it dissipated.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	-	Numerous large tree limbs (4 inch diameter) downed in Ormond Beach. Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph.
June 2008	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	Law enforcement relayed a report of nickel size hail.
October 2008	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	Hail was reported at Ormond Beach.
September 2007	Heavy Rain	Ormond Beach	-	As much as 9 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period across parts of coastal Volusia County.
July 2005	Funnel Cloud	Ormond Beach	-	The public reported a funnel cloud over Interstate 95 west of Ormond Beach.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Ormond Beach	-	Heavy rain in the morning hours brought 24 hour rain totals to near 7 inches. Widespread street flooding with water in two homes in Ormond Beach was reported. A lane of Interstate 95 was blocked by flood waters.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	-	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in Ormond Beach.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Ormond Beach	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees west of Ormond Beach.
April 1997	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	Nickel size hail fell in Ormond Beach.
April 1997	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	Nickel size hail fell in Ormond Beach.
April 2005	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Ormond Beach	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Volusia County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1937 USGS Ormond quadrangle1:48000
1944 USGS Ormond quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Ormond Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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
Nocoroco	2.7 miles	1973
Hammocks, The	3.3 miles	1989
Rowallan	3.6 miles	1988
John Anderson Lodge	3.8 miles	1989
Talahloka	3.8 miles	1989
Ormond Hotel	3.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10001033 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia County	All 93 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.