White Springs Historic District

Built in 1840. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. 5 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1954.

From the record

“The White Springs Historic District is a historic district in White Springs, Florida. It is bounded by River Street, 1st Street, Suwannee Street, Hewitt Street, SR 25A, U.S. 41 and Suwannee Road, encompasses approximately 1,200 acres (4.9 km2), and contains 81 historic buildings and 1 object.”
Wikipedia article White Springs Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1997 · category: District · built in 1840.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by River, First, Suwannee, and Hewitt Sts., FL 25A, US 81 and Suwannee R., White Springs, 32096
When was it listed? September 1997
Category. district
Census division. White Springs
When was it built? 1840
National Register reference number. 97001143 - 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of White Springs Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,274 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Railroad operations and maintenance	38
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Natural	25
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
8 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	100TH WAY (24-06)
18 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WOODPECKER (24-06)
13 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
10 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 August 2001	Natural	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
13 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	30 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
9 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	61-MATTRESS FIRE-0962

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of White Springs Historic District: 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	White Springs Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Iron, Magnesite, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect	1967
	White Springs Phos-Acid Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	White Springs	$500	Sheriff's office reported power lines down near White Springs.

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Maps showing this location

5 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS White Springs West quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1981 USGS Lake City quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

1 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
	Johns House	0.8 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001143 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 5 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.