Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.

From the record

“Located in north Pinellas County, Florida, approximately thirty miles northwest of Tampa, Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District is a U.S. historic district. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 2014.”
Wikipedia article Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Bounded by Dodecanese & Roosevelt Blvds., W. Tarpon & N. Pinellas Aves., Tarpon Springs, 34689
When was it listed? June 2014
Category. district
Census division. Tarpon Springs
National Register reference number. 14000321 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1943 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District, surveyed 1943

Fires near this property

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Tarpon Springs Greektown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 521 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 20 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
Arson/incendiarism	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
1 September 1999	Natural	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
23 August 1997	Natural	28 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	RUSHMORE (51)
4 July 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 July 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	51/DOVE/0766
15 July 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	51/SALT FLAT FIRE/0865
9 June 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	52 NORTH ANCLOTE
8 June 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	MARINER POINT (52)

Every fire recorded in Pinellas County

Storms near this property

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tarpon Springs, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 3 hail, 2 flood. The reports record 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
August 2013	Lightning	Tarpon Springs	1 hurt	A 40 year old female was injured by a lightning strike.
August 2018	Lightning	Tarpon Springs	$75,000	Local broadcast media aired a story of a house fire thought to have been caused by lightning.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarpon Springs	$50,000	Strong winds damaged a house and the combination of wind and storm surge led to the evacuation of 15 people.
August 2018	Lightning	Tarpon Springs	$25,000	A fire at a home was suspected to have been caused by a lightning strike. The time of the lightning strike was estimated from radar.
July 2009	Heavy Rain	Tarpon Springs	$20,000	Heavy rains flooded roads in Tarpon Springs. One home on the 600 block of South Grosse Avenue was damaged as debris piled up in a nearby storm drain and caused flooding of three inches of water into the home.
March 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarpon Springs	$5,000	Screens on a pool cage were ripped and a stop sign bent by estimated thunderstorm winds of 45 knots near the corner of Westwinds Drive and Cardinal Trail in Dunedin.
August 1996	Flood	Tarpon Springs	$5,000	no account filed
August 1996	Lightning	Tarpon Springs	$2,500	no account filed
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarpon Springs	$500	Picture on social media showed a medium-sized tree down on a road near Tarpon Springs.
January 2011	Hail	Tarpon Springs	$250	There were numerous reports from the broadcast media and trained spotters from Palm Harbor to Tarpon Springs of dime to quarter sized hail. A window was broken in Tarpon Springs from the hail.
April 2010	Hail	Tarpon Springs	-	The public reported up to quarter sized hail falling for five minutes east of Tarpon Springs.
April 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarpon Springs	-	Trees and power lines were downed in North Tarpon Springs.
July 2008	Hail	Tarpon Springs	-	The public reported nickel size hail near the intersection of East Lake Road and Lansbrook Parkway in Palm Harbor.
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Tarpon Springs	-	A wind gust of 69 mph was reported by a spotter in Fred Howard Park in Tarpon Springs.
April 1996	Flood	Tarpon Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pinellas County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:31680
1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Tarpon Springs 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
E. R. Meres Sponge Packing House	0.1 miles	1991
Safford House	0.2 miles	1974
N. G. Arfaras Sponge Packing House	0.2 miles	1991
DUCHESS (Sponge Hooking Boat)	0.3 miles	1990
GEORGE N. CRETEKOS (Sponge Diving Boat)	0.3 miles	1990
N.K. SYMI (Sponge Diving Boat)	0.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000321 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.