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Charles Deering Estate

Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“Deering Estate is the former Florida home of Charles Deering until 1927 when he died at the estate. The Charles Deering Estate rests on 444 acres and comprises two buildings known as the Richmond Cottage and the Stone House.”

Wikipedia article Charles Deering Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 1986 · category: District · built in 1900.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Deering, Charles, Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. S.W. One Hundred Sixty-seventh St. and Old Cutler Rd., Cutler, 33157
  • When was it listed? March 1986
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Kendall-Palmetto Bay
  • When was it built? 1900
  • National Register reference number. 86000325 - 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

1949 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Charles Deering Estate, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Charles Deering Estate, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

99 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Charles Deering Estate between 1992 and 2017, burning about 957 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 maintenance29
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use18
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
4 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2017Arson/incendiarism10 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLAKE BY THE BAY (13)
26 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 July 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceFIRST ( 13)
13 July 1997Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 July 1994Misuse of fire by a minor20 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCORAL REEF (13)

Every fire recorded in Miami-Dade County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Charles Deering Estate: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kendall Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Perrine Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000325 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Miami-Dade CountyAll 191 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.