Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1892.
From the record
“The Dunnellon Boomtown Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Dunnellon, Florida. The district is bounded by McKinney Avenue, Illinois Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Cedar Street.”
Wikipedia article Dunnellon Boomtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
National Register reference number.88002807- 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
1892 to 1991
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
99 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
18921991
Fires near this property
249 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Dunnellon Boomtown Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,450 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 18 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
71
Natural
43
Railroad operations and maintenance
34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
33
Debris and open burning
26
Arson/incendiarism
18
Misuse of fire by a minor
10
Power generation/transmission/distribution
7
Smoking
3
Other causes
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
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 National Weather Service names
Dunnellon, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 flood.
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.
Marion County Public Safety reported damage to a residence along Powell Road as the result of thunderstorm winds. A residence had a metal roof pulled from it, and then damaged 3 other nearby homes.
A large tree was blown down and blocked the road at SW 136 Court at SW 109th. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated for the event to be included in StormData.
A line of strong to severe thunderstorms moved east across Marion county early Saturday morning, March 12th. A tornado touched down in Dunnellon where a large billboard was knocked over and siding was peeled off of a small professional building. Trees were damaged, snapped and uprooted. The next concentration of damage was reported on the south and east sides of Ocala where many trees were blown down and/or uprooted. Powerlines were blown down and numerous residences and an apartment building had damage. Damage in Ocala concentrated near SW 44th Court where some structural damage occurred and tree and powerline damage occurred. Another damaged local was near SW 41st Street near the Paddock Park Apartments where extensive roof damage occurred due to a large tree falling on the building. The county had to open an emergency shelter to house about 6 people displaced from the tornado. The peak winds of the tornado were estimated near 110 mph.
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.
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.
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