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Photograph of Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Historic District
Photograph by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Cassadaga, Florida. The district is bounded by Cassadaga Road and Marion, Stevens, Lake and Chauncey Streets.”

Wikipedia article Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

318 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 318 fires within 5 miles of Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,584 acres in total. 83 started naturally. 38 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
Natural83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Equipment and vehicle use49
Arson/incendiarism38
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Railroad operations and maintenance23
Recreation and ceremony13
Debris and open burning12
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes3
Fireworks3
Smoking1

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
5 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceVICTORIA GARDENS (64)
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64 VICTORIA PARK
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresFlorida Forest ServiceU.T. ROAD (64)
26 September 2012Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLAKE DUPONT (64)
26 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64- NEWMARK
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 2016Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHURCH STREET (64)
15 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF- 64 LAKE TINY

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this property

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cassadaga, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCassadaga$5,000A large tree fell on top of two parked cars in the driveway of a home on Yorkshire Avenue in Deltona from winds estimated at 50 mph.
June 2022HailCassadaga-The public reported via social media that hail up to quarter-size fell near Lake Helen Osteen Road and Haulover Blvd. in Deltona.
May 2020HailCassadaga-The public reported quarter sized hail near the intersection of Courtland Boulevard and Lockwood Boulevard in Deltona.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCassadaga-The public reported several medium sized branches downed and a fence toppled over along Monarch Avenue in Deltona.

Every storm recorded in Volusia 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.

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
Ann Stevens House0.4 miles1993
Lake Helen Historic District1.7 miles1993
Seth French House3.7 miles2003
Orange City Town Hall3.8 miles2002
Dickinson Memorial Library and Park3.9 miles1995
Orange City Historic District3.9 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000249 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia CountyAll 93 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.