Old Collier County Courthouse

Built in 1926 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“The Old Collier County Courthouse is a historic two-story concrete and stucco courthouse building located in Everglades City, Florida. Built in 1928, the Classical Revival-style structure served as Collier County's courthouse until 1962, when the county seat was moved to East Naples.”
Wikipedia article Old Collier County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Collier County · listed in 2013 · category: Building · built in 1926, Neoclassical architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 102 Copeland Ave., N., Everglades City, 34139
When was it listed? December 2013
Category. building
Census division. Everglades
When was it built? 1926
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 13000875 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1956 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Old Collier County Courthouse, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Old Collier County Courthouse, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Old Collier County Courthouse between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1,468 acres in total. 13 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	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Firearms and explosives use	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
11 September 2000	Natural	2.9 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	OCHOPELAKE
11 September 1997	Natural	60 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	HELLS ACRE
20 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	MONROE
15 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	HALFWAY CREEK
12 August 2005	Natural	42 acres	Everglades National Park	PLANT'N 2
9 July 1997	Natural	5.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	SEAGRAPE
16 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	PLANTATION
16 June 1994	Natural	2.9 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	WASHOUT

Every fire recorded in Collier County

Storms near this property

7 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Everglades City, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Everglades City	$444,590	An EF0 Tornado touched down at the Everglades City Airport, flipping two Cessna Aircrafts while moving northeast. The tornado then moved across western sections of Everglades City producing roof and minor structural damage to a condo, school, and storage building and also downing trees and power poles and damaging fences before dissipating on the north side of town.
June 2024	Flash Flood	Everglades City	$25,000	Public aerial drone footage revealed a flooded Everglades City with a large amount of standing water on the ground and entering resident homes. The 48 hour rainfall totals in Everglades City reached up to 14 inches on June 11 and 12th. Other areas across Collier County were highly impacted and received up to 20 inches of rain throughout the 72 hour event from June 11 though 13th. With several rounds of heavy rainfall, there was 19.72 of rain measured at the Oasis RAWS in southeastern Collier County.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Everglades City	$5,000	Four boats suffered minor damage from thunderstorm winds
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Everglades City	$5,000	An old wood frame house, under reconstruction following Hurricane Andrew and termite damage, was totally destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
January 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Everglades City	-	Members of the public shared video of the tornadoes it passed near Everglades City after coming ashore. The survey observed a leaning power pole along Tamiami Trail just east of the intersection with State Road 29. The damage was tornadic in nature and matches with radar velocity/reflectivity at the time as a strong circulation passed over. Estimated peak wind of 85 mph.
July 2003	Hail	Everglades City	-	The Sheriff and FHP reported three-quarter inch hail covering the roadway at the intersection of I-75 and CR 951.
November 1998	Tornado (F0)	Everglades City	-	A tornado touched down near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Highway 29 damaging trees along its path as it moved to the north.

Every storm recorded in Collier County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

3 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
Everglades Laundry	0.2 miles	2001
Bank of Everglades Building	0.2 miles	1999
Ted Smallwood Store	3.5 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000875 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Collier County	All 12 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.