Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.
From the record
“Douglas House is a historic house located at 209 Scotland Street in Dunedin, Florida. It is locally significant as one of the oldest buildings in the town and as the home of one of the owners of an important early store in the pioneer community, and it remains an excellent example of vernacular architecture in central Florida.”
Wikipedia article J. O. Douglas House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79000691- 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
1943 to 1998
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
55 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19431998
Fires near this property
8 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of J. O. Douglas House
between 1993 and 2017, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
Dunedin, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2017: 3 lightning, 1 waterspout, 1 flood, 1 hail.
The reports record 4 injuries. 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.
Pinellas County Fire Rescue reported that a lightning surge travelled through phone lines and injured three people at the Neilson Media Research Center in Dunedin.
Lightning struck a building and injured a 44 year-old firefighter while indoors near the intersection of U.S. Highway 19 and Republic Drive. The firefighter suffered muscle and nerve damage in his right arm and shoulder from the lightning shock. The lightning injury occurred while the firefighter was holding open an elevator door when lightning struck and travelled through the elevator shaft of the building. The lightning also damaged electrical equipment within the building.
Pinellas County 911 reported that a lightning strike caused a fire in the attic of an apartment complex in Dunedin, severely damaging two of the units. Three fire fighters were injured while attempting to put out the fire.
Pinellas County Emergency Management relayed a report of a roof to an apartment building that collapsed under the weight of heavy rain pooling on the roof. The roof was under construction at the time of the incident.
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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