Thomas R. Pierce House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.

From the record

“Pierce House is a historic house in Bushnell, Florida. It is locally significant as an outstanding example of vernacular architecture, and the only historic hotel or boarding house from this period remaining in Bushnell.”
Wikipedia article Thomas R. Pierce House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Sumter County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Pierce, Thomas R., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 202 W. Noble Ave., Bushnell, 33513
When was it listed? February 1996
Category. building
Census division. Bushnell-Center Hill
National Register reference number. 96000022 - 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Thomas R. Pierce House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 439 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 4 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	23
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
2 September 2014	Natural	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	OAK (60)
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	747(60)
23 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	609A (60)
28 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	60/OAK TREE FIRE/0779
26 June 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	60/BATTLEFIELD FIRE/0768
15 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 May 2017	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	POTTING SOIL (60)
29 May 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	60/722 FIRE-0657

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this property

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bushnell, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1993 and 2023: 17 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
April 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$25,000	EM reports downed trees and power lines northwest of Bushnell.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$20,000	There were numerous reports of trees and power lines down in the Bushnell area. Trees were blocking the roads on Highway 301 and County Road 475 where each intersected County Road 532W. The downed trees led to a multiple vehicle accident on County Road 475.
June 2000	Hail	Bushnell	$20,000	Skywarn Spotters reported that wind blown dime to nickel sized hail damaged a few vehicles in Bushnell.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$15,000	There were numerous reports of trees and power lines down in the Bushnell area. A tree blocked the road near the intersection of County Road 476 and County Road 609A.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$10,000	Sumter County Emergency Management reported numerous downed trees on Jumper Drive in Bushnell. One house sustained minor roof damage from a tree. The Osprey Point Nursing Center also sustained minor damage to the facade of the building.
March 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$10,000	The Sumter county emergency management reported thunderstorm winds damaged a few sheds, downed a few trees and several large branches along U.S. Highway 301 in extreme southern Sumter county.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$10,000	Sumter County Emergency Management reported that thunderstorm winds downed several power lines and large branches along U.S. Highway 301 between Bushnell and Sumterville.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$10,000	A Skywarn Spotter reported that a 50 mph thunderstorm wind gust caused minor to moderate damage to one quarter of a metal type quonset barn along County Road 575 north of County Road 476.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$5,000	There were several reports of trees, power lines, and numerous medium to large tree limbs downed around the city of Bushnell.
June 2007	Lightning	Bushnell	$5,000	Lightning ignited a fire in the eaves of a church a few mile east of Bushnell.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds down trees and took the roof off of one mobile home in Bushnell.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$5,000	Skywarn Spotters reported that thunderstorm winds removed the roof of a greenhouse and downed a few large trees and several large branches along a three quarter mile long and 200 yard path in Bushnell.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$5,000	Strong thunderstorm winds uprooted a tree which crashed into a house.
September 1998	Tornado (F0)	Bushnell	$5,000	no account filed
March 1996	Tornado (F0)	Bushnell	$4,000	no account filed
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds downed a few large trees, several large limbs and a couple power lines along U.S. Highway 301 in Bushnell.
January 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$2,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Bushnell	$2,000	Brief tornado touchdowns did minor damage.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$1,000	A local TV station shared pictures of a few large trees down in Bushnell. A trampoline was also tossed into a tree.
March 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	$1,000	no account filed
March 2018	Hail	Bushnell	-	Sumter County Sheriff's Office reported nickel size hail in Wahoo.
February 2004	Heavy Rain	Bushnell	-	Bushnell recorded 6.51 inches of rain during the event.
March 2001	Hail	Bushnell	-	Quarter sized hail was reported by Sumter county emergency management along County Road 476B in extreme southwest Sumter county.
July 1999	Hail	Bushnell	-	Dime sized hail was reported by Sumter County Emergency Management on the 1000 block of County Road 48.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	-	no account filed
March 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Bushnell	-	no account filed
March 1996	Hail	Bushnell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter County

Maps showing this location

7 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.

1955 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Tarpon Springs quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1958 USGS Bushnell quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1958 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Plant City quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Inverness quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Dade Battlefield Historic Memorial	1.2 miles	1972
	Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery	7.0 miles	2021

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000022 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sumter County	All 4 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.