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Photograph of Silver Palm Schoolhouse
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Silver Palm Schoolhouse

Built in 1904. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

“The Silver Palm Schoolhouse is an historic school in the Silver Palm Historic District within the unincorporated community of Redland, Florida, United States. It is located at Silver Palm Drive and Newton Road.”

Wikipedia article Silver Palm Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 191 National Register listings published here for Miami-Dade County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1904.

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. Silver Palm Dr. and Newton Rd., Goulds, 33170
  • When was it listed? July 1987
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Princeton-Goulds
  • When was it built? 1904
  • National Register reference number. 87000581 - 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 Silver Palm Schoolhouse, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet covering Silver Palm Schoolhouse, surveyed 1949

Fires near this property

622 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 622 fires within 5 miles of Silver Palm Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,533 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 232 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
Arson/incendiarism232
Railroad operations and maintenance137
Equipment and vehicle use114
Misuse of fire by a minor46
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural12
Smoking9
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBASE (13)
28 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWESTERN (13)
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceISLAND FIRE #2
25 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceTHE ISLAND FIRE
24 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDJ FIRE
23 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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 Silver Palm Schoolhouse: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 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
Eureka PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Naranja Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Miami-Dade County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goulds, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 1 waterspout, 1 flash flood, 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
October 2011Flash FloodGoulds$100,000Severe flooding occurred over large parts of eastern metro Miami-Dade County beginning during the evening hours of October 30th and continuing well into the next day. The area of heavy rain began over southern sections of the flood area, including Cutler Bay, Palmetto Bay and Key Biscayne around 830 PM EDT and spread north to the Pinecrest, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove areas around 10 PM EDT, and from city of Miami to North Bay Village shortly after midnight. Numerous roads were under deep water and reports of dozens of homes with water intrusion were received across this entire area. ||Rainfall amounts were in the 6 to 10 inch range across this area, virtually all of it falling in less than 12 hours. Highest rainfall estimates were in Coconut Grove where up to 12 inches or more may have fallen, causing water to pond to as high as 4 feet in a few areas. A Coral Gables PD official deemed this to be the most flooding he's ever seen in the area. The western half of Key Biscayne was under water.
May 2022LightningGoulds$5,000Lightning struck the roof of a home in the 22600 block of SW 109 Court in Princeton. A patch of about 75-100 barrel tiles at the tip of the roof were broken off by the lightning strike. A fire was sparked but was put out by firefighters before any additional damage could occur.
August 1996WaterspoutGoulds-no account filed

Every storm 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 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
William Anderson General Merchandise Storeunder 500 feet1977
Coral Castle3.5 miles1984
McMinn-Horne House5.2 miles1996
Naval Air Station Richmond Headquarters Building5.3 miles2017
Lindeman-Johnson House5.4 miles1996
Florida East Coast Railway Locomotive #1535.4 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000581 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.
  • 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.