Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.
From the record
“The Downtown Haines City Commercial District is a U.S. historic district located in Haines City, Florida. The district is bounded by Hinson and Ingraham Avenues, and 4th and 7th Streets.”
Wikipedia article Downtown Haines City Commercial District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 78 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1994 · category: District.
National Register reference number.94000150- 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
1955 to 1979
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
24 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19551979
Fires near this property
143 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Downtown Haines City Commercial District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,571 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance
34
Debris and open burning
29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Equipment and vehicle use
19
Natural
12
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
Arson/incendiarism
8
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
Recreation and ceremony
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 federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Downtown Haines City Commercial District: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Peat, Sand. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Haines City, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 11 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 lightning.
The reports record 23 injuries. 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 strong F2 tornado touched down in the Lake Region mobile home park along U.S. Highway 27 and County Road 544 in Polk county. Several mobile homes sustained major to severe damage. Residents of Haines City who heard the tornado described that the sound resembled a high-pitched whine.The F2 tornado moved northeast and travelled across U.S. Highway 27 and caused significant wall and roof damage to several well built wood, mixed brick and mobile homes over mainly south and east Haines City from County Road 544 northeast to County Road 580. The Boone Middle School over eastern Haines City had heavy damage to a main building while eleven portable classrooms were destroyed or heavily damaged.Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped half way up from the base. Several orange trees were sheared near the base along County Road 544. Several power poles were snapped and power lines downed along the path of the F2 tornado.Total damage was estimated at six million dollars. Seventy-five homes were destroyed, another 75-100 suffered major damage while another 75-100 received minor damage. Most of the homes destroyed were mobile or pre-fabricated homes. Also, at least ten vehicles were damaged or destroyed by the tornado.Nearly 2,000 electrical customers were without power from power poles and lines blown down by the tornadic wind.Most injuries that occurred during the tornado touchdown resulted from wind blown debris.
Smoke from a reignited controlled burn combined with dense fog which reduced visibility to near zero along Interstate 4 near U.S. Highway 27 in northern Polk county for several hours. Vehicle accidents along with three injuries occurred when motorists attempted to reduce speed while entering the reduced visibility.
Heavy rainfall of three to five inches in less than two hours caused localized urban flooding along the U.S. Highway 27 corridor from Haines City south to Lake Wales in Polk county. A few vehicles incurred water damage from the urban floodwaters at low-lying intersections along the U.S. Highway 27 corridor in Polk county.
A brief tornado touched down in Haines City, near Highways 27 and 92. The tornado damaged house roofs, and several vehicles, and downed trees and power lines.
Golfball sized hail was reported by Polk county emergency management at Baseball City near the intersection of Interstate 4 and U.S. Highway 27 over extreme northeast Polk county.
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.
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.
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