Barberville Central High School

Built in 1920 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The Barberville Central High School is a historic school building in Barberville, Florida, United States. On February 3, 1993, it was added to the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Barberville Central High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1993 · category: Building · built in 1920, Colonial Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1776 Lightfoot Ln., Barberville, 32180
When was it listed? February 1993
Category. building
Census division. Pierson-Seville
When was it built? 1920
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, vernacular architecture, American Craftsman
National Register reference number. 92001838 - 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Barberville Central High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,647 acres in total. 114 started naturally. 11 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	114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	42
Debris and open burning	31
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Railroad operations and maintenance	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 September 2006	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF- 660 SR40
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	FEASERS & 17 (64)
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	HAGSTROM RD (64)
3 September 2000	Natural	6.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BLUFFTON MARSH (64)
8 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	BLUFFTON RD. (64)
6 August 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barberville, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Barberville	$20,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and damaged a mobile home near Barberville and Pierson.
April 2012	Hail	Barberville	-	A trained spotter observed quarter to half dollar sized hail near the intersection of Buckles Road and State Road 40, in Pierson.
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Barberville	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a few trees in the Barberville area.
April 2005	Hail	Barberville	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Barberville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Volusia County

Maps showing this location

5 surveys

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.

1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Pierson quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1978 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Strawn Historic Sawmill District	4.9 miles	1993
Strawn Historic Citrus Packing House District	4.9 miles	1993
Strawn Historic Agricultural District	6.5 miles	1993
DeLeon Springs Colored School	6.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001838 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia County	All 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.