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Photograph of Kelsey City City Hall
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Kelsey City City Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1946.

From the record

“The Kelsey City City Hall is a historic site in Lake Park, Florida. The two-story, Mediterranean Revival Style building has served as city hall since opening in 1928, when the municipality was known as Kelsey City.”

Wikipedia article Kelsey City City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Palm Beach County · listed in 1981 · 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. 535 Park Ave., Lake Park, 33403
  • When was it listed? September 1981
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Riviera Beach
  • National Register reference number. 81000195 - 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

1946 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 10 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Kelsey City City Hall, surveyed 1956
Topographic sheet covering Kelsey City City Hall, surveyed 1946

Fires near this property

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Kelsey City City Hall between 1992 and 2017, burning about 680 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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
Natural12
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Arson/incendiarism4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1993Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2005Natural15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSCHOOL CMND
21 August 2011Natural6.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWATSON (50)
13 August 2005Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBANYON CMND
7 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 July 2003Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceOKEECHOBEE COMMAND
21 July 2003Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service47TH ST COMMAND

Every fire recorded in Palm Beach County

Storms near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Park, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003LightningLake Park$80,000A lightning-initiated fire destroyed a three bedroom home No one was hurt but two cats died in the fire.

Every storm recorded in Palm Beach 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Palm Beach Winter Club1.9 miles2012
Northboro Park Historic District3.7 miles2007
Old Northwood Historic District4.1 miles1994
Seaboard Airline Railroad Station4.3 miles1986
Hurricane of 1928 African American Mass Burial Site4.4 miles2002
Pine Ridge Hospital5.1 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 81000195 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Palm Beach CountyAll 74 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.