Fort White Public School Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The Fort White Public School Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Fort White, Florida. The district is near the intersection of East Dorch and North Bryant Streets.”
Wikipedia article Fort White Public School Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1989 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. E. Dorch at N. Bryant St., Fort White, 32038
When was it listed? December 1989
Category. district
Census division. Fort White
National Register reference number. 89002061 - 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Fort White Public School Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,560 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	69
Railroad operations and maintenance	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
24 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	HILLIARD LN(12)
17 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WASHINGTON ST (12)
31 July 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SANDERS WAY (12)
22 July 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	MILL (12)
15 July 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 June 2011	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ELIM CHURCH ROAD (12)
3 June 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 June 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort White, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
August 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort White	$500	Large trees blown down.

Every storm recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Fort White quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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
	Sikes House	0.3 miles	2007
	O'Leno State Park	8.0 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 89002061 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia 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.
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.