Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. 6 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1952.
From the record
“The Fort Meade Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Fort Meade, Florida. The district is bounded by North 3rd Street, Orange Avenue, South 3rd Street and Sand Mountain Road.”
Wikipedia article Fort Meade Historic 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.94000781- 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
1952 to 1988
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
36 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19521988
Fires near this property
200 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Fort Meade Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,464 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 21 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
50
Railroad operations and maintenance
39
Equipment and vehicle use
33
Debris and open burning
28
Arson/incendiarism
21
Natural
17
Smoking
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Other causes
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
14 workings within 5 miles of Fort Meade Historic District: 5 plants, 4 producers, 3 prospects, 1 unknown.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Iron, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Aluminum, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite. 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
Fort Meade, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2018: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado.
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.
The sheriff's office reported trees uprooted near US 98 and Pool Branch Road but no structures were affected. The only damage indicator is hardwood trees uprooted.
A large tree was downed in north Fort Meade, and numerous large tree branches were downed along Highway 17. Minor street flooding was also reported within the Fort Meade city limits.
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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