Bagdad Village Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1920.

From the record

“The Bagdad Village Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Bagdad, Florida. The district is bounded by Main, Water, & Oak Streets, Cobb & Woodville Roads, Cemetery, Pooley, & School Streets.”
Wikipedia article Bagdad Village Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Santa Rosa 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 Main, Water, & Oak Sts., Cobb & Woodville Rds., Cemetery, Pooley, & School Sts., Bagdad, 32583
When was it listed? December 1987
Category. district
Census division. Bagdad
National Register reference number. 87001991 - 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

1920 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Bagdad Village Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Bagdad Village Historic District, surveyed 1920

Fires near this property

485 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 485 fires within 5 miles of Bagdad Village Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,573 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 28 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 maintenance	169
Debris and open burning	85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	59
Equipment and vehicle use	53
Misuse of fire by a minor	40
Arson/incendiarism	28
Smoking	18
Recreation and ceremony	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Natural	9
Other causes	3
Fireworks	2

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 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 September 2004	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	NEW LAKE FIRE-1076
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Florida Forest Service	PATTERSON TOWN (57)
3 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BENEVA RD FIRE1553

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Bagdad Village Historic District: 13 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gault City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gault City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kehoe Farm Clay Deposit	Clay	Unknown
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Avalon Mine	Clay	Unknown
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Geiger Mine	Clay	Unknown
Dot Pensacola - Rest Area Mine	Sand	Unknown
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Hickory Hammock Mine	Sand	Unknown
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Santa Rosa Mine	Sand	Unknown
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - T-Field Mine	Sand	Unknown
Salter/3-C's - B.Lowery Mine	Sand	Unknown	Sand

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bagdad, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 9 lightning, 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 waterspout. The reports record 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	1 hurt	High winds downed a tree on a Mobile home.
January 2017	Lightning	Bagdad	1 hurt	A person was struck by Lightning on Garcon Point Road just south of Milton.
July 2002	Lightning	Bagdad	1 hurt	A female went outside to roll up her automobile windows as a thunderstorm was approaching. She was hit by lightning when a strike hit a nearby tree, went through the root system of the tree and hit her. She was taken to a local hospital, examined and released.
June 2017	Lightning	Bagdad	$50,000	A lightning strike caused a structural fire.
April 2014	Lightning	Bagdad	$50,000	A structure fire was caused by a lightning strike.
January 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	$25,000	Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged an equestrian center and an out building on Bobby Brown Road.
April 2015	Lightning	Bagdad	$25,000	Lightning struck a house in the Florida panhandle causing damage.
January 2017	Lightning	Bagdad	$20,000	Lightning caused a house fire on Enchanted Oak Court.
July 2008	Lightning	Bagdad	$15,000	Lightning struck a building in Bagdad. The strike caused a fire that damaged the building. Lightning also hit a tree and started a fire that burned three acres of woods.
November 2002	Tornado (F0)	Bagdad	$15,000	A thunderstorm produced a weak tornado just North and East of Bagdad that resulted in some minor roof damage to several structures, as well as some downed trees and power lines.
June 2018	Lightning	Bagdad	$5,000	A Best Western on Highway 87 South was struck by lightning.
February 2016	Lightning	Bagdad	$5,000	Lightning struck a shed and started a fire.
March 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	$5,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph blew a tree limb down on a house.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	$5,000	High winds damaged the roof and a porch on a home near Bagdad.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	$2,000	Winds estimated at 60 mph downed power lines down on John Hamm road in East Milton.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bagdad	-	Public report of estimated gusts around 60 mph.
June 2021	Flash Flood	Bagdad	-	Heavy rain caused US 90 at Glover Lane to be closed due to water over the road.
October 1997	Waterspout	Bagdad	-	Two waterspouts were reported in Blackwater Bay, south of Bagdad. The waterspouts dissipated over the bay.
January 2026	Hail	Bagdad	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Bagdad	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Bagdad	-	no account filed
January 1997	Hail	Bagdad	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Santa Rosa County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1920 USGS Milton quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Milton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Milton quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Milton South quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Milton South quadrangle1:24000

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
Ollinger-Cobb House	1.3 miles	1983
Mt. Pilgrim African Baptist Church	1.4 miles	1992
Louisville and Nashville Depot	1.4 miles	1982
St. Mary's Episcopal Church and Rectory	1.4 miles	1982
Milton Historic District	1.4 miles	1987
St. Mary's Episcopal Church and Rectory	1.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001991 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Santa Rosa County	All 11 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.