James W. Townsend House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1915.

From the record

“Townsend House is a historic home in Orange Springs, Florida. It is located at Main and Spring Streets on the previously owned property of John William Pearson.”
Wikipedia article James W. Townsend House (Orange Springs, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Townsend, James W., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Main and Spring Sts., Orange Springs, 32182
When was it listed? October 1988
Category. building
Census division. Fort McCoy-Anthony
National Register reference number. 88001849 - 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

1915 to 1993

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 78 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering James W. Townsend House, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering James W. Townsend House, surveyed 1915

Fires near this property

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of James W. Townsend House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,151 acres in total. 71 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
Natural	71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Arson/incendiarism	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Other causes	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	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
22 September 2014	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	KENWOOD DRIVE (54)
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	PUTNAM/DEAD-END FIRE
8 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 August 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
19 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
17 August 1995	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
14 August 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	NW 220TH ST (42)

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1915 USGS Interlachen quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Interlachen quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1944 USGS Interlachen quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Interlachen quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Keuka quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Saint Augustine quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1993 USGS Keuka quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Orange Springs Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery	0.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001849 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 32 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.