Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.
From the record
“The Townsend Building is a historic building located at 410 West Main Street in Lake Butler, Florida. Although damaged by fire, it retains significant architectural features which reflect the two-part block commercial design which was popular at the time, and Italian Renaissance Style.”
Wikipedia article Townsend Building (Lake Butler, Florida), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 4 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1900.
National Register reference number.92001359- 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.
Fires near this property
164 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Townsend Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,465 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 9 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
Natural
35
Equipment and vehicle use
29
Debris and open burning
29
Railroad operations and maintenance
28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Arson/incendiarism
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
9
Recreation and ceremony
1
Smoking
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 National Weather Service names
Lake Butler, the town this property stands in, in 37 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 22 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 2 wildfire.
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.
Multiple trees were reported down across SW SR 121 especially at the intersections of SW 76th St and SW 92nd St. Powerlines were reported down in Lake Butler and a power pole was leaning along SW 7th St. EM reported a gust of 42 mph. Time was estimated by radar.
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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