Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1938.
From the record
“The Neilson House is a historic house located on CR 234 in Windsor, Florida, United States. It is locally significant as a singularly fine example of a style of architecture which is exceptionally rare in Florida.”
Wikipedia article Neilson House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Alachua County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.73000566- 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
1938 to 1954
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
16 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19381954
Fires near this property
178 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Neilson House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,106 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 11 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
39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
36
Railroad operations and maintenance
27
Debris and open burning
22
Equipment and vehicle use
18
Arson/incendiarism
11
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Recreation and ceremony
7
Fireworks
2
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. Museums hold 16,884 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Neilson House between 1806 and 1975: 8,113 Fungi, 6,924 Animalia, 1,004 Protozoa, 630 Plantae, 129 Chromista, 82 Unrecorded, 2 Bacteria.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by ?, A B GROBMAN, A S Rhoads and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Neilson House: 1 past producer.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Windsor, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind.
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.
The Florida FDEM Watch office relayed a report of a tree blown down onto State Road 26 which caused a partial road closure. Peak wind gusts from the nearby Gainesville ASOS were 44 mph around the time of the damage. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for inclusion of the event in Storm Data.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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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