Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1938.
From the record
“The Melrose Historic District is a 250-acre (100 ha) U.S. historic district in Melrose, Florida that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It is bounded by Seminole Ridge Road, Grove Street, South Street, Quail Street, and Melrose Bay.”
Wikipedia article Melrose Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 64 National Register listings published here for Alachua County · listed in 1990 · category: District.
National Register reference number.89002305- 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
1938 to 1954
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
16 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19381954
Fires near this property
213 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Melrose Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,658 acres in total. 19 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
Debris and open burning
58
Railroad operations and maintenance
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
28
Equipment and vehicle use
27
Arson/incendiarism
19
Natural
19
Misuse of fire by a minor
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
3
Other causes
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Fireworks
1
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. Museums hold 709 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Melrose Historic District between 1850 and 1975: 328 Animalia, 310 Fungi, 52 Plantae, 9 Chromista, 8 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded.
12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A. & L. Rhoads, A. S. Rhoads, A. Stowers and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Melrose Historic District: 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Magnesite, Uranium, Aluminum, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.
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