Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1955.
From the record
“Eatonville is a town in Orange County, Florida, United States, six miles north of Orlando. Incorporated on August 15, 1887, it was one of the first freedmen's towns, which were self-governing, all-Black municipalities in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Eatonville, Florida, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 56 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1998 · category: District.
National Register reference number.97001214- 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 1995
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19551995
Fires near this property
30 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Eatonville Historic District
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 124 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
13
Arson/incendiarism
5
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Natural
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Debris and open burning
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
1 working within 5 miles of Eatonville Historic District: 1 producer.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Eatonville, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
Three to five inches of rain fell within metro Orlando in less than an hour due to a stationary thunderstorm. Numerous cars became stranded in water over a foot deep and required first responders to rescue at least five motorists in Pine Hills. The rush of water was so strong, it tore the front bumper off one car and nearly flipped it over. Six inches of water entered cars and the high water approached the front doors of businesses. Several major roadways were closed due to the high water. High water also flooded streets and drains overflowed at Lee Road and Interstate 4, and the intersection of Mills Avenue and Colonial Drive in Orlando.
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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