Joshua Davis House

Built in 1824. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The Joshua Davis House is a historic home in Gadsden County northwest of Mt. It is located two-and-a-half miles northwest of Mt.”
Wikipedia article Joshua Davis House (Mt. Pleasant, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Gadsden County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1824.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. Davis, Joshua, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2.5 mi. NW of Mt. Pleasant on U.S. 90, Mt. Pleasant, 32324
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Census division. Quincy
When was it built? 1824
National Register reference number. 75000554 - 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

1954 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Joshua Davis House, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Joshua Davis House, surveyed 1954

Fires near this property

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Joshua Davis House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,172 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 13 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
Debris and open burning	76
Railroad operations and maintenance	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PHILLPIS RD (20)
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 September 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
25 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	HARDAWAY (20)
25 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(20) PINEVIEW COMMAND

Every fire recorded in Gadsden County

Maps showing this location

8 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Mt Pleasant quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	U.S. Arsenal-Officers Quarters	6.9 miles	1973
	Chattahoochee Historic District	7.3 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000554 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gadsden County	All 18 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.