Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1952.
“The Gamble Place Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Port Orange, Florida. It contains 6 historic buildings, 5 structures, and 14 objects.”
Wikipedia article Gamble Place Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1993 · category: District.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
The ground this property stands on, surveyed 2 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Gamble Place Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,049 acres in total. 155 started naturally. 18 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 | 155 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 23 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 19 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2016 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SHUNZ RD SOUTH (64) |
| 2 September 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 12 acres | Florida Forest Service | COVE POINT RD (64) |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 18 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | WF VILLAGE LANE-0739 |
| 1 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 4 August 1993 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 1998 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | PIONEER TRAIL NORTH (64) |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Orange, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2002 | Lightning | Port Orange | 1 killed | A 62 year-old Port Orange man was killed by lightning outside his home. |
| September 2003 | Lightning | Port Orange | $250,000 | Lightning struck a warehouse in Port Orange. The resulting fire caused $250 thousand in damage. |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $120,000 | A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees. |
| April 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $120,000 | A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees. |
| July 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $100,000 | An F0 tornado touched down in a mobile community near Port Orange damaging 33 mobile homes and producing severe damage to two. The tornado also blew down trees and power lines. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | $40,000 | Thunderstorm winds overturned a mobile home and damaged two others east of Port Orange. |
| June 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Port Orange | $20,000 | A small tornado touched down briefly in rural Volusia County, about four miles north of Highway 44 along Highway 415. The tornado blew down a few trees and destroyed a pool screen. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Hail | Port Orange | $3,000 | A few mobile homes were damaged by falling trees and quarter size hail in Port Orange. |
| March 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | $500 | Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. |
| March 2008 | Hail | Port Orange | - | One inch hail was reported by the public in Port Orange. |
| May 1997 | Hail | Port Orange | - | Dime size hail fell in Port Orange. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Port Orange | - | Dime-size hail fell in Port Orange. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Port Orange | - | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Port Orange | - | no account filed |
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins | 4.3 miles | 1973 |
 | Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot | 4.9 miles | 1998 |
 | Dunlawton Avenue Historic District | 4.9 miles | 1998 |
 | Grace Episcopal Church and Guild Hall | 5.1 miles | 1998 |
| Green Mound | 6.0 miles | 2020 | |
 | Meyer-Davis House-Hasty Cottage | 6.8 miles | 2015 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 93000563 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. |
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