Built in 1906. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1921.
From the record
“Gulfport Casino is a national historic site located at 5500 Shore Blvd., Gulfport, Florida in Pinellas County. Built at the end of the dock into the bay in 1906 as station and ticket office, the building contained a post office and a refreshment stand.”
Wikipedia article Gulfport Casino, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1906.
National Register reference number. 14000477 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1921 to 1994
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19211994
Fires near this property
1 since 2006
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gulfport Casino
in 2006, burning about 3 acres 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
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Gulfport Casino: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Gulfport, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1993 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 lightning, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain.
The reports record 3 injuries. 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.
Two police officers were shocked and slightly injured when lightning struck the Gulfport City Hall. The officers had their hands on pieces of metal attached to an office cubicle when lightning struck the exterior of the building. The lightning strike damaged two surveillance cameras and temporarily disabled the City Hall computers.
The state watch office reported a man on a motorcycle was struck by lightning near Gulfport. The man was treated on-scene for his injuries and refused to be taken to the hospital.
Broadcast media reported that a travel trailer was destroyed in St. Petersburg in a fire that was sparked by a lightning strike. One dog was killed in the fire.
A narrow track of damage was found along the path of a radar indicated tornado signature, indicating a brief touch down. The storm had previously produced a waterspout that was witnessed near the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. A large oak tree was knocked down on a house near the intersection of 14th Avenue South and 44th Street South. Another Large tree was slit, falling on a house near 11th Avenue South and 43rd Street south.
A National Weather Service survey found a narrow path of damage from a waterspout that came onshore in Gulfport as a tornado and moved north for less than 2 miles before dissipating. Damage occurred to 12 homes, including damage to facia, shingles, awnings, and fences. Damage was roughly estimated at $20,000.
A trained spotter reported 3 trees downs and 3 telephone poles down in Saint Petersburg near 16th Avenue South and 21st Street South. One of the trees fell onto a trailer.
Pinellas County 911 reported a possible lightning strike that caused a house fire in St. Petersburg. The fire caused damage to the roof of one home. The fire was put out by the homeowners. No injuries were reported.
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.
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.
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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