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One of 50 National Register listings published here for Lee County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Fish Cabin at White Rock Shoals
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1956.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. W. of Pine Island, Pine Island Sound, St. James City, 33956
- When was it listed? April 1991
- Category. building
- Also known as. Fish Cabins of Charlotte Harbor MPS
- Census division. Pine Island
- National Register reference number. 91000398 - 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
1956 to 1981The ground this property stands on, surveyed 25 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
33 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Fish Cabin at White Rock Shoals between 1992 and 2020, burning about 507 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 1 August 2019 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | STRINGFELLOW SWAMP (36) |
| 6 July 2014 | Natural | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | THREE BRUSH (36) |
| 4 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 2005-17-0386 |
| 27 July 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 36/TWO PILES BURNING FIRE |
| 24 July 2014 | Natural | 90 acres | Florida Forest Service | RED MANGO (36) |
| 18 July 1994 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 July 1992 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited 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.
- 1956 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Pine Island Center quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
- 1959 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1972 USGS Tampa quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Charlotte Harbor quadrangle1:100000
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Captiva School and Chapel-by-the-Sea Historic District | 4.6 miles | 2013 |
 | Tween Waters Inn Historic District | 4.9 miles | 2011 |
 | Punta Gorda Fish Company Ice House | 6.8 miles | 1989 |
| Ice House at Captiva Rocks | 6.9 miles | 1991 | |
| Whidden Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks | 7.0 miles | 1991 | |
| Leneer Fish Cabin at Captiva Rocks | 7.1 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 91000398 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Lee County | All 50 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.