Morgan-Townsend House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“Morgan-Townsend House is a national historic site located at 13535 North Highway 19, Salt Springs, Florida in Marion County. The rectangular two and one-half story house is an example of Frame Vernacular construction from the late nineteenth century.”
Wikipedia article Morgan-Townsend House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Morgan--Townsend House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 13535 N. FL 19, Salt Springs, 32134
When was it listed? September 2013
Category. building
Census division. East Marion
National Register reference number. 13000794 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1954 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Morgan-Townsend House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Morgan-Townsend House, surveyed 1954

Fires near this property

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Morgan-Townsend House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,106 acres in total. 52 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
Natural	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	LAKE KERR 1
28 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	SALT SPRINGS #19
25 September 2020	Natural	14 acres	National Forests in Florida	SALT SPRINGS ISLAND
16 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BEAR CREEK
15 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	BLUE CRAB
8 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named
8 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	National Forests in Florida	not named
8 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	not named

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Morgan-Townsend House: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	John R. Dykes - Michigan City Mine	Sand	Unknown

Every working recorded in Marion County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Salt Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Salt Springs quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kerr City Historic District	3.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000794 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 32 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.