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Immokolee

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.

From the record

One of 16 National Register listings published here for St. Lucie County · listed in 1994 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 8431 Immokolee Rd., Fort Pierce, 34951
  • When was it listed? July 1994
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Fort Pierce
  • Architectural style. Mediterranean Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93001450 - 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Immokolee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,359 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 10 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
Natural49
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceLION (56)
2 September 2013Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceEMERSON (56)
16 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 August 2010Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service(SL) TURNPIKE (453)
4 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2011Natural25 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGENTILE AGAIN (56)

Every fire recorded in St. Lucie County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Immokolee: 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown Ranch Mine, Stewart MiningLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
North PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
St. Lucie MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Stewart Mining Industries, Inc. - Brown RanchLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Dickerson Florida, Inc. - Sr 70 MineSandUnknownSand
Frank Stewert Trucking - Tozour Road MineSandProducer
Ft. Pierce Sand and Mat'L - North MineSandProducer
Glen Blackburn Trucking, Inc. - Sapp Road MineSandUnknown
W. H. Baggett - Baggett MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in St. Lucie County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Pierce, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1995HailFort Pierce$500Severe thunderstorms dropped baseball-size hail near Oslo Road, 10 miles southwest of Vero Beach, and near Fort Pierce. Numerous cars were damaged and windows were broken in two mobile homes.

Every storm recorded in St. Lucie County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Casa Caprona3.5 miles1984
Zora Neale Hurston House4.3 miles1991
St. Lucie Village Historic District4.5 miles1989
St. Anastasia Catholic School, Old5.3 miles2000
St. Lucie High School5.3 miles1984
Fort Pierce Old Post Office5.6 miles2002

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93001450 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
St. Lucie CountyAll 16 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.
  • 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.