A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.
From the record
“The Safety Harbor Site is an archaeological site in Philippe Park at 2525 Philippe Parkway in Safety Harbor, Florida, United States. It represents the site of Tocobaga, the capital of the Native American people also known as Tocobaga in the 16th century.”
Wikipedia article Safety Harbor site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000270- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
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.
19431995
Fires near this property
91 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Safety Harbor Site
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 900 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 9 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
38
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Arson/incendiarism
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
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
Safety Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 3 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
A nearly stationary waterspout developed over the waters of Safety Harbor and was pushed onshore near the 400 block of East Shore Drive in Oldsmar. Pinellas County Sheriff's Office found damage to shingles of a home, knocked down branches, a tree, a mailbox, and snapped a guide wire.
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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