Longwood Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Longwood Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Longwood, Florida. The district is bounded by West Pine Avenue, South Milwee Street, Palmetto Avenue, and CR 427.”
Wikipedia article Longwood Historic District (Longwood, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Seminole 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by W. Pine Ave., S. Milwee St., Palmetto Ave. and Co. Rd. 427, Longwood, 32750
When was it listed? October 1990
Category. district
Census division. Casselberry-Altamonte Springs
National Register reference number. 90001480 - 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

1955 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Longwood Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Longwood Historic District, surveyed 1955

Fires near this property

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Longwood Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 180 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Debris and open burning	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 July 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
28 July 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 July 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 June 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
26 June 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
24 June 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 June 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
1 June 2004	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BAHAMA (O-3)

Every fire recorded in Seminole County

Storms near this property

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Longwood, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. The reports record 12 deaths and 36 injuries. 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
February 1998	Tornado (F3)	Longwood	12 killed, 36 hurt, $30,000,000	The Seminole County category F3 tornado was produced by the same supercell that produced the Winter Garden tornado. It initially set down near Longwood and moved northeast at 45 mph. The tornado passed through several neighborhhoods in the southeast portion of Sanford killing 12 people in mobile homes and injuring 70. It continued northeast and crossed into Volusia County 5 miles east of Sanford. The near 200 mph winds of the tornado damaged or destroy 625 structures.
June 2012	Lightning	Longwood	$200,000	Lightning sparked a house fire on Rangeline Woods Cove, east of Interstate 4 and north of State Road 434 in Longwood. The house suffered extensive damage and one firefighter was injured while fighting the fire.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$65,000	Severe thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines, overturned 7 tractor trailer trucks and damaged the doors on a large warehouse near Longwood.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$40,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged the roof of a high school in Longwood.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$40,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged the roof of a high school in Longwood.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$20,000	Two trees were knocked down in Longwood off of Orlando Avenue producing property damage to a car and house. Photos were obtained.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$9,500	Emergency manager reports a large tree down, causing power line damage in Longwood near the intersection of Markham Woods Rd and EE Williamson Rd. Time estimated via radar.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$4,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees, power lines and power poles in the Longwood area.
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	$1,300	Public report of a tree down near the Springwood Village Condo Complex. Some fencing was also damaged. Time estimated via radar.
March 2022	Hail	Longwood	-	Broadcast meteorologists reported quarter-sized hail at the FOX35 studios.
March 2022	Hail	Longwood	-	Several reports of quarter sized hail in Longwood received from trained spotters and the public, including near the intersections of Bucksaw Place and Cross Cut Way, and intersection of Marjorie Blvd. and Middle Lane.
June 2015	Hail	Longwood	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported by the public in Wekiva Springs. An additional report of golf ball sized hail was received nearby. Numerous other reports of dime to nickel sized hail were also received in the vicinity.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	-	Significant damage to trees up to one foot in diameter, fences down, and other debris reported near the intersection of East Williamson Road and Markahm Woods Road in Longwood.
April 2013	Hail	Longwood	-	A ham radio operator reported quarter sized hail at the South Seminole Hospital.
August 2012	Hail	Longwood	-	A spotter reported nickel-sized hail on Sandalwood Way in Longwood.
August 2009	Hail	Longwood	-	Local media relayed a public report of penny sized hail at the intersection of State Road 434 and County Road 427.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	-	Trees were blown down in the Longwood area.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	-	Two large trees were blown down and a pool screen destroyed by thunderstorm winds in Longwood.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Longwood	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees in the Longwood area.
April 2002	Hail	Longwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Seminole County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1955 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1957 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Casselberry quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1962 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Orlando quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings
1994 USGS Casselberry quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

5 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
Longwood Hotel	under 500 feet	1984
Bradlee-McIntyre House	2.7 miles	1991
Seminole County Home	4.2 miles	1999
Lake Mary Chamber of Commerce Building	4.4 miles	2004
Nils M. and Beverly Schweizer House	4.6 miles	2024

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90001480 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Seminole County	All 19 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.