Avon Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1953.

From the record

“The Avon Park Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Avon Park, Florida. It runs along Main Street from South Delaney Avenue to U.S. 27, encompasses approximately 25 acres (0.10 km2), and contains 13 historic buildings and 1 object.”
Wikipedia article Avon Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Highlands County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main St. from S. Delaney Ave. to US 27, Avon Park, 33825
When was it listed? March 1990
Category. district
Census division. Avon Park
National Register reference number. 90000486 - 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

1953 to 1988

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 35 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Avon Park Historic District, surveyed 1988

Topographic sheet covering Avon Park Historic District, surveyed 1953

Fires near this property

352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of Avon Park Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,450 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 63 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
Arson/incendiarism	63
Debris and open burning	62
Equipment and vehicle use	61
Railroad operations and maintenance	57
Natural	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Recreation and ceremony	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Fireworks	7
Smoking	5
Other causes	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
3 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(HI) TROJAN (1502)
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(HI) ILLEAGAL BURN (1498)
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32 acres	Florida Forest Service	YARBOROUGH (28 )
23 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	GRAHAM (28)
23 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	COD TRAIL (28)
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	AVON BLVD(28)
20 September 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Highlands County

Storms near this property

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avon Park, the town this property stands in, in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 14 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 4 tornado, 3 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	1 hurt, $60,000	Thunderstorm winds caused minor to moderate damage to the roofs of two mobile homes, tore off the awnings of a few homes and downed several trees in a trailer park in Avon Park. Several roadside billboards were toppled or splintered by thunderstorm winds along U.S. Highway 27 south of Avon Park.Two businesses in Avon Park received roof and gate damage from the thunderstorm wind. One person received minor cuts at the Bonnie Brae Estates mobile home park when the thunderstorm wind blew the roof off an extension to her mobile home.
March 1998	Tornado (F1)	Avon Park	$437,000	no account filed
July 2008	Lightning	Avon Park	$290,000	Lightning struck the garage of a house on North Rehrer Road and started a fire that destroyed the entire house and two cars.
March 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$150,000	Downburst winds from a thunderstorm caused structural damage to several metal buildings and sheds along State Road 64 near the intersection of U.S. Highway 27 in Avon Park. The downburst winds blew from north northwest to south southeast which damaged several north facing roof overhangs and facades of commercial buildings along State Road 64.
September 1999	Flood	Avon Park	$50,000	Three to five inches of rain fell in less than three hours and caused localized flooding of homes, businesses and woodlands in low-lying areas along the U.S. Highway 27 corridor from Avon Park to Venus.
July 1998	Flood	Avon Park	$50,000	Four to six inches of heavy rain fell in less than three hours and caused localized flooding of low lying areas along the U.S. Highway 17 corridor between Avon Park and Sebring. A few homes and several vehicles incurred water damage in the Highland Lakes area near Avon Park.
April 1993	Tornado (F0)	Avon Park	$50,000	A small tornado moved through the Mobile Home Village at Charlie Creek on SR 64 near Avon Park damaging 14 mobile homes.
January 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$30,000	Thunderstorm winds caused minor damage to the roofs, porches, lanais and carports of few homes along the U.S. Highway 27 corridor between Avon Park and Sebring.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$25,000	Highlands County EM relayed reports and pictures of 2 barns damaged by straight-line winds associated with a downburst from thunderstorms in the area. Mostly minor damage consisting of metal siding or roofing peeled away from the structures.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$15,000	no account filed
August 2005	Lightning	Avon Park	$10,000	Lightning struck a tree then trenched its way to a storage shed that caught fire. The shed and its contents of generators were a total loss but heavy rains kept the fire from spreading to a nearby group home.
January 1998	Tornado (F0)	Avon Park	$10,000	A tornado briefly touched down and blew over five to seven toppers at a recreational vehicle dealership along U.S. Highway 27 before it lifted and dissipated.
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds removed the roof of a shed and downed several power lines in Avon Park.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several large trees which damaged the roofs of a few homes in Avon Park.
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$5,000	A stationary thunderstorm blew the roof off a gabled secion of a roof-over of a mobile home
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few antennas, power lines and trees in Avon Park.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees onto a house which caused moderate structural damage. Another house in the same vicinity received minor roof damage from thunderstorm winds. Several fences were ripped down and a numerous large trees were downed.
November 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$3,000	Florida Department of Emergency Management relayed a report of a secondary roof pulled off of an older mobile home that downed a power line in Avon Park, along with a trampoline flipped over.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$2,500	The large business sign at the Market 27 store in Avon Park was destroyed.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	$2,000	Power lines were downed near Avon Park. There were also numerous reports of damage received from across the county.
June 2022	Hail	Avon Park	-	Social media video showed estimated quarter size hail near Avon Park.
July 2015	Hail	Avon Park	-	Employees of the Market 27 store in Avon Park reported quarter size hail.
August 2008	Heavy Rain	Avon Park	-	The observer recorded 9.49 inches of rain.
September 2004	Heavy Rain	Avon Park	-	A National Weather Service observer recorded 5.97" of rain.
September 2004	Heavy Rain	Avon Park	-	A National Weather Service observer two miles east of Avon Park recorded 6.37".
May 1998	Hail	Avon Park	-	Dime sized hail was reported at the Avon Park Municipal Airport.
April 1997	Tornado (F0)	Avon Park	-	A tornado briefly touched down over a rural, semi-wooded area of extreme western Highlands county near County Road 634 with no apparent damage.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Avon Park	-	Thunderstorm winds blew a shed off it's foundation.
May 1998	Hail	Avon Park	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Avon Park	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Avon Park	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Avon Park	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Highlands County

Maps showing this location

6 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.

1953 USGS Avon Park quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1978 USGS Bartow quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1988 USGS Fort Pierce quadrangle1:250000

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
Pinecrest Hotel, Old	2.5 miles	2000
Elizabeth Haines House	6.5 miles	1993
Santa Rosa Hotel	7.8 miles	2017
Paul L. Vinson House	7.8 miles	1989
Central Station	7.9 miles	1989
Sebring Downtown Historic District	8.0 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000486 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Highlands County	All 17 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.