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Asa May House

Built in 1840 (Greek Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The Asa May House is a historic house located along U.S. 19, between U.S. 27 and I-10 in Capps, Florida. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1972.”

Wikipedia article Asa May House (Rosewood Plantation), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1972 · category: Building · built in 1840, Greek Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. May, Asa, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. N of jct. off U.S. 19 and 27, Capps, 32336
  • When was it listed? December 1972
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Wacissa
  • When was it built? 1840
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 72000329 - 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.

Fires near this property

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Asa May House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 257 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning25
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(33) TEXACO FIRE
22 August 1993Equipment and vehicle use25 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 June 2000Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 June 2011Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWPA RD (33)
14 June 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Capps, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2011Thunderstorm WindCapps$3,000Trees were blown down around Capps. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCapps$3,000A few trees and power lines were blown down east of Capps on US-27. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
November 1995Thunderstorm WindCapps$1,000A large tree was blown across power lines and into Highway 27 between Capps and Wakeena.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCapps-A tree was blown down along Avalon Road.
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Capps-A tornado touched down briefly in a wooded area. There was a short narrow swath of pine trees with their tops snapped off.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

Listed places nearby

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Turnbull-Ritter House4.2 miles1979
Lloyd Railroad Depot7.9 miles1974
Lloyd Historic District (Boundary Decrease)8.0 miles2002
Dennis-Coxetter House8.0 miles1988
Lloyd-Bond House8.0 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72000329 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson CountyAll 23 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.