Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.

From the record

“The Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District is a U.S. historic district located at 10000 Bay Pines Blvd. in Bay Pines, Florida. The district contains prehistoric aboriginal sites and fourteen Mediterranean Revival style hospital buildings constructed from the 1930s.”
Wikipedia article Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 10000 Bay Pines Blvd., Bay Pines, 33708
When was it listed? June 2012
Category. district
Also known as. United States Second Generation Veterans Hospitals MPS
Census division. Boca Ciega
National Register reference number. 12000363 - 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

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 Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District, surveyed 1921

Fires near this property

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic District between 1992 and 2016, burning about 34 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 July 2015	Natural	7.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SEMINOLE (52)
14 June 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 May 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	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
10 March 2016	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	WALSINGHAM ROAD (52) **

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this property

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bay Pines, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Pines	$20,000	Pinellas County Emergency Management reported 5 mobile homes on Park Street North experienced minor thunderstorm wind damage, with 2 additional units sustaining severe damage.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bay Pines	$1,000	A tree was blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts in Seminole.
June 2008	Hail	Bay Pines	-	Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of Park Street and 54th Avenue North.

Every storm 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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
Casa De Muchas Flores	2.1 miles	1985
Maurice and Thelma Rothman House	2.4 miles	2013
Casa Coe da Sol	2.8 miles	1980
Sunset Hotel	3.4 miles	2014
John & Florence McKeage House	3.4 miles	2013
Civitan Beach House	4.3 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12000363 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.