Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
From the record
“Joseph's Catholic Church, also known as St. Joseph Miller Street Catholic Church, is a historic wooden Roman Catholic church located at 1422 Northeast Miller Street in Palm Bay, Florida, United States.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Palm Bay, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.87000816- 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 1981
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19491981
Fires near this property
125 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 125 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,971 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 21 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
Equipment and vehicle use
33
Natural
24
Arson/incendiarism
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
21
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
7
Smoking
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Debris and open burning
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 federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Palm Bay, the town this property stands in, in 44 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 19 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 4 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 3 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.
An F1 tornado touched down in the western part of Palm Bay blowing down trees and damaging 20 homes. Four houses received major damage. A partially constructed block house was demolished. One person was injured.
Low end EF0 tornado, estimated 65 to 75 mph, touched down in southwest Palm Bay and damaged 26 structures, mainly within the Holiday Park mobile home community. Damage mostly involved roofs, fences and exterior surfaces.
A waterspout tornado moved west off the Indian River and came ashore along U.S. Highway 1 in Palm Bay. It damaged the roof to a restaurant and destroyed the restaurant porch.
An apparent microburst associated with a fast moving strong thunderstorm produced localized wind damage to the Palm Bay Chamber of Commerce building and surrounding area. The roof of a building lost a small portion of its roof, soffits were pulled from another building and a free standing sign was ripped in half. One large tree was toppled and several small palm trees were knocked over.
Between 4 and 6 inches of rain fell across south Brevard County during a 6-hour period from mid morning through late afternoon, leading to roadway flooding, roadway closures and stranded vehicles. High levels of standing water continued into the early evening then rapidly subsided. The areas with most significant impacts included Palm Bay and Malabar.
The same rainband cell that destroyed the house south of Melbourne Beach continued to move northwest and produced a brief F0 tornado that took out power lines and transformers.
An intense rain shower produced a small F0 tornado in Palm Bay as it moved inland from the Atlantic. The tornado remained on the ground only a few blocks. It destroyed a wooden carport, uprooted a few trees and damaged awnings, fences and outdoor furniture.
A Palm Bay citizen reported that strong thunderstorm winds damaged the aluminum porch of his neighbors mobile home on Tangelo Drive and peeled back part of the roof.
Based on a NWS storm survey, a waterspout that developed on the Indian River moved onshore and damaged several residences on Worth Court in Palm Bay, including a waterfront home whose second floor was removed and carried downwind. The EF-1 tornado (estimated 100 to 110 mph) continued across US-1, causing minor roof damage to a university building. The tornado then impacted over a dozen mobile homes within Palm Bay Estates, several of which were heavily damaged or destroyed. The tornado continued west, just to the north of Turkey Creek, damaging many trees and several additional homes before moving through a school campus before dissipating near the Harris Corporation. DI2, DOD6, LB-EXP.
Heavy rainfall associated with persistent cells produced urban, small stream, and roadway flooding in the Palm Bay area. The highest 3-day rainfall total reported within Brevard County, ending at 0600 EST October 10, was 14.82 inches, at a CoCoRaHS site located 1 mile northeast of Palm Bay (FL-BV-14).
Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball-size hail and damaged eleven mobile homes and a club house causing $75,000 damage near Palm Bay. Trees were blown down and one mobile home was damaged in South Melbourne Beach.
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.
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.
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