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Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
From the record
“The Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach is a historic chapel at 501 Ocean Avenue, Melbourne Beach, Florida, United States. The local residents built the chapel in 1892 & made it non-denominational, which it remains today.”
Wikipedia article Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92000505- 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
1949 to 1981
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
32 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19491981
Fires near this property
45 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 644 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Arson/incendiarism
7
Natural
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Smoking
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
1 working within 5 miles of Community Chapel of Melbourne Beach: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Melbourne Beach, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 tornado, 2 lightning.
The reports record 1 death and 3 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.
A lightning strike directly hit and killed a man on Melbourne Beach. The lightning strike also injured the man's wife and son, who were transported to a local hospital and admitted in 'good condition' with only minor burns.
A man was struck by lightning while fishing on the beach at Spessard Holland South Beach Park in Melbourne Beach. The man was taken to a local hospital with injuries. The associated isolated thunderstorm moved from the mainland across the barrier island to the Atlantic while producing occasional cloud to ground lightning strikes.
A rainband from Hurricane Wilma moving northwest toward the coast produced an F2 waterspout-tornado that moved on shore and removed the upper floor of a house that was built over a ground level garage. The top half of the structure was blown into US Highway A1A.
Severe thunderstorms produced golf ball-size hail and damaged eleven mobile homes and a club house causing $75,000 damage near Palm Bay. Trees were blown down and one mobile home was damaged in South Melbourne Beach.
APRS site DW8248 measured a peak wind gust of 50 knots or 58 mph from the northwest. Around 10 minutes later the same site gusted to 53 knots or 61 mph..
Based on a NWS storm survey, a waterspout moved onshore Melbourne Beach near Avenue B, causing minor damage to the second floor of two homes. The brief EF-0 tornado with winds estimated at 70 to 80 mph continued inland and dissipated just west of Highway A1A. DI2, DOD2, LB-EXP.
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.
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.
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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