Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1952.
From the record
“The Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill, a 19th-century cane sugar plantation in north-central Florida, was destroyed by the Seminoles at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. The ruins are located at 950 Old Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange, Florida.”
Wikipedia article Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.73000606- 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
1952 to 1954
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
2 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19521954
Fires near this property
137 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,394 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 15 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
63
Arson/incendiarism
15
Misuse of fire by a minor
14
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Railroad operations and maintenance
9
Recreation and ceremony
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Debris and open burning
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
Port Orange, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death. 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 small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees.
A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees.
An F0 tornado touched down in a mobile community near Port Orange damaging 33 mobile homes and producing severe damage to two. The tornado also blew down trees and power lines.
A small tornado touched down briefly in rural Volusia County, about four miles north of Highway 44 along Highway 415. The tornado blew down a few trees and destroyed a pool screen.
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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