Wakulla Springs Archeological and Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1940.
From the record
“Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park is a Florida State Park in Wakulla County, Florida, United States. This 6,000 acre (24 km2) wildlife sanctuary, located south of Tallahassee, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated a National Natural Landmark.”
Wikipedia article Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 10 National Register listings published here for Wakulla County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
National Register reference number.92001760- 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
1940 to 1954
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
14 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19401954
Fires near this property
159 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Wakulla Springs Archeological and Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,379 acres in total. 10 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
Debris and open burning
60
Railroad operations and maintenance
33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
18
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Natural
10
Arson/incendiarism
7
Recreation and ceremony
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Other causes
3
Smoking
1
Fireworks
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
Wakulla Springs, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain.
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.
A tree was blown down near the intersection of Wakulla Arran Rd and Spring Creek Highway near Crawfordville. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
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.
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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