Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.

From the record

“The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot is a historic Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway (CH&N) depot in Boca Grande, Florida. The station was built by the CH&N in 1910; the railroad's parent company, the American Agriculture and Chemical Company, had several phosphate mines in the area and wanted a railroad to ship its phosphate and other goods.”
Wikipedia article Boca Grande station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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.
Address. Park and 4th Sts., Boca Grande, 33921
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Census division. Boca Grande
National Register reference number. 79000676 - 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 1981

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot, surveyed 1981

Topographic sheet covering Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot, surveyed 1956

Fires near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway Depot in 2008, burning about 187 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	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
16 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	187 acres	Florida Forest Service	CAYO FIRE

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this property

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boca Grande, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 waterspout. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2000	Tornado (F0)	Boca Grande	1 hurt	A Skywarn Spotter reported that a waterspout came onshore as a tornado at the south end of Gasparilla Island. One man was injured by flying debris from the tornado before it lifted and dissipated.
August 2000	Tornado (F0)	Boca Grande	$75,000	The public reported that a waterspout moved onshore as a weak tornado along Treasure Lane, one mile northeast of Boca Grande. The local fire department reported that the small tornado caused minor roof, lanai, carport and glass damage to a few homes as it moved west across Jean Lafette, Gaspar Drive, East Railroad and Gasparilla Roads. Also, a few trees were uprooted or snapped half way from the base before the tornado lifted and dissipated near 14th Street in Boca Grande.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Boca Grande	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds caused damage to seven homes and downed trees and power lines from Boca Grande to Cape Coral. A mobile home on the 3300 block of Del Prado had part of the roof peeled back while another home on the 4500 block of Del Prado lost about 600 square feet of shingles. Other reports included damage to sheds and car ports.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Boca Grande	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds downed power lines, trees and large branches and slightly damaged roofs and windows in Boca Grande.
March 2000	Tornado (F0)	Boca Grande	$5,000	A waterspout was observed to move onshore as a tornado and cross Gulf Boulevard on the southern tip of Gasparilla Island. The tornado passed over South Lake Village and uprooted fifteen trees along South Bayou Drive. The tornado also damaged the garage door of a townhouse on the 700 block of South Bayou Drive before it lifted and dissipated.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Boca Grande	$5,000	Wind gusts to 75 mph blew down signs and tore shingles off roofs.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Boca Grande	-	A home weather station measured a 65mph wind gust. Power lines were blown down along 4th Street.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Boca Grande	-	Fire and Rescue reported numerous trees down on the island after the thunderstorm passed.
March 2000	Waterspout	Boca Grande	-	A waterspout was observed to move onshore near Gulf Boulevard one mile south of Boca Grande on the southwest side of Gasparilla Island.
June 2000	Waterspout	Boca Grande	-	A Skywarn Spotter reported a waterspout approximately 300 yards off the south end of Gasparilla Island.
August 2000	Waterspout	Boca Grande	-	A family of up to three waterspouts was reported by the public three miles east northeast of Boca Grande.One of the waterspouts eventually moved onshore near Boca Grande.

Every storm recorded in Lee County

Maps showing this location

7 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 Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Port Boca Grande quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 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
Boca Grande Lighthouse	0.1 miles	1980
Boca Grande Community Center	0.4 miles	1995
Whidden's Marina	0.4 miles	2000
First Baptist Church of Boca Grande	0.6 miles	2009
Downtown Boca Grande Historic District	0.6 miles	2011
Gasparilla Inn Historic District	0.8 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000676 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lee County	All 50 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.