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Photograph of DeLand Hall
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

DeLand Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The DeLand Hall is a historic site in DeLand, Florida, United States. It is located within the Stetson University Campus Historic District, on the northeast corner of an entrance to the university at from North Woodland Boulevard across from West Minnesota Avenue.”

Wikipedia article DeLand Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1983 · 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. Stetson University Campus, DeLand
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. DeLand
  • National Register reference number. 83001441 - 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.

Fires near this property

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of DeLand Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,595 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Equipment and vehicle use53
Natural50
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony14
Other causes6
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSPRING GARDEN (64)
5 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceVICTORIA GARDENS (64)
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64 VICTORIA PARK
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceU.T. ROAD (64)
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarism50 acresLake Woodruff National Wildlife RefugeHOT TIME
5 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF WAR ADMIRAL
4 August 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service44 I-4 WESTBOUND (64)
21 August 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF GRAND AVE

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this property

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names DeLand, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports in 1993: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 1993Thunderstorm WindDeland$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines and blew in windows.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindDeland$5,000Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed shutters and damaged roofs.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindDeland-A thunderstorm gust to 74 mph was recorded.

Every storm recorded in Volusia 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.

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
Stetson University Campus Historic Districtunder 500 feet1991
West DeLand Residential District0.4 miles1992
Downtown DeLand Historic District0.5 miles1987
Alexander Haynes House0.7 miles1995
Eastwood Terrace Hotel0.7 miles2019
James W. Wright Building0.8 miles2021

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001441 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia CountyAll 93 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.