Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.
From the record
“Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District is a national historic district located at Captiva, Florida in Lee County. It includes an early one-room schoolhouse, built in 1901 and transformed into a Methodist mission church in 1921.”
Wikipedia article Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 2013 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 13000853 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1956 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
38 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19561994
Fires near this property
1 since 2013
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District
in 2013, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Captiva, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2004: 2 tornado, 1 flood, 1 waterspout, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
A storm survey showed a convergent damage pattern and an increase in apparent wind intensity consistent with a tornado. The most pronounced damage pattern was in a small area of southern Captiva Island. Damage reached the Fujita Scale F2 intensity that was was mix of both tornado and hurricane wind damage, making an assessment difficult.
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.
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.
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.
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