Ted Smallwood Store

Built in 1917. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Collier County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1917.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Smallwood, Ted, Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. FL 29 in Everglades National Park, Chokoloskee Island, 34138
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. building
Census division. Everglades
When was it built? 1917
National Register reference number. 74000612 - 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

1956 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Ted Smallwood Store, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Ted Smallwood Store, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ted Smallwood Store between 1992 and 2012, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 September 2000	Natural	2.9 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	OCHOPELAKE
11 September 1997	Natural	60 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	HELLS ACRE
15 August 2012	Natural	2.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	HALFWAY CREEK
12 August 2005	Natural	42 acres	Everglades National Park	PLANT'N 2
9 July 1997	Natural	5.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	SEAGRAPE
16 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Big Cypress National Preserve	PLANTATION
13 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Big Cypress National Preserve	HALF CREEK
10 May 2005	Natural	46 acres	Everglades National Park	SUNDAY BAY

Every fire recorded in Collier 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.

1956 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Chokoloskee quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1982 USGS Everglades City quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Miami quadrangle1:250000

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Everglades Laundry	3.4 miles	2001
Bank of Everglades Building	3.4 miles	1999
Old Collier County Courthouse	3.5 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000612 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Collier County	All 12 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.