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Photograph of Cap's Place
Photograph by Dtobias, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cap's Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1946.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Broward County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2980 NE. 31st Ave., Lighthouse Point, 33064
  • When was it listed? August 1990
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Deerfield Beach
  • National Register reference number. 90001227 - 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

1946 to 1956

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 10 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Cap's Place, surveyed 1956
Topographic sheet covering Cap's Place, surveyed 1946

Fires near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cap's Place between 2010 and 2019, burning about 38 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
24 April 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHIGHLAND SCRUB (6)
26 February 2010Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEERFIELD FIRE
25 February 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresFlorida Forest ServicePINEAPPLE (06)
19 January 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDEERFIELD PARK (06 )

Every fire recorded in Broward County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cap's Place: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
H L Westberry Rock and FillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 4Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pompano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tscotis Sand MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Broward County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hillsboro Inlet Light Station0.6 miles1974
Sample Estate2.1 miles1984
Sample-McDougald House3.0 miles2004
Pompano Beach Mound3.3 miles2014
James D. and Alice Butler House3.6 miles1995
Deerfield School3.6 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001227 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Broward CountyAll 39 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.
  • 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.