Downtown DeLand Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The Downtown DeLand Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in DeLand, Florida. The district is bounded by Florida & Rich Avenues, Woodland Boulevard, & Howry Avenue.”
Wikipedia article Downtown DeLand Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Florida & Rich Aves., Woodland Blvd., & Howry Ave., DeLand, 32720
When was it listed? December 1987
Category. district
Census division. DeLand
National Register reference number. 87001796 - 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

261 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 261 fires within 5 miles of Downtown DeLand Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,645 acres in total. 51 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
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54
Natural	51
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Arson/incendiarism	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Recreation and ceremony	15
Debris and open burning	14
Other causes	6
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	SPRING GARDEN (64)
5 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	VICTORIA GARDENS (64)
27 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF-64 VICTORIA PARK
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Florida Forest Service	U.T. ROAD (64)
19 September 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CHURCH STREET (64)
17 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge	HOT TIME
5 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF WAR ADMIRAL
4 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	44 I-4 WESTBOUND (64)

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Deland	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down trees and power lines and blew in windows.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Deland	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds destroyed shutters and damaged roofs.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Deland	-	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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS De Land quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Alexander Haynes House	0.1 miles	1995
James W. Wright Building	0.3 miles	2021
West DeLand Residential District	0.5 miles	1992
Stetson University Campus Historic District	0.5 miles	1991
DeLand Hall	0.5 miles	1983
Eastwood Terrace Hotel	0.6 miles	2019

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001796 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia County	All 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.