Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1943.
From the record
“Old Tarpon Springs High School is a historic school building in Tarpon Springs, in the United States state of Florida. On October 11, 1990, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Old Tarpon Springs High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 72 National Register listings published here for Pinellas County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90001538- 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
1943 to 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
52 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19431995
Fires near this property
87 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Tarpon Springs High School, Old
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 26 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
26
Misuse of fire by a minor
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
12
Equipment and vehicle use
11
Natural
8
Railroad operations and maintenance
7
Recreation and ceremony
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
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. The National Weather Service names
Tarpon Springs, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 lightning, 3 hail, 2 flood.
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.
Heavy rains flooded roads in Tarpon Springs. One home on the 600 block of South Grosse Avenue was damaged as debris piled up in a nearby storm drain and caused flooding of three inches of water into the home.
Screens on a pool cage were ripped and a stop sign bent by estimated thunderstorm winds of 45 knots near the corner of Westwinds Drive and Cardinal Trail in Dunedin.
There were numerous reports from the broadcast media and trained spotters from Palm Harbor to Tarpon Springs of dime to quarter sized hail. A window was broken in Tarpon Springs from the hail.
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.
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.
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.
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