Dunlawton Avenue Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1937.

From the record

“The Dunlawton Avenue Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Port Orange, Florida. The district runs roughly along Dunlawton Avenue to Lafayette Avenue, and Orange Avenue and Wellman Street.”
Wikipedia article Dunlawton Avenue Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Volusia County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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 17 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Roughly along Dunlawton Ave. to Lafayette Ave., and Orange Ave. and Wellman St., Port Orange, 32127
When was it listed? February 1998
Category. district
Also known as. Port Orange MPS
Census division. Port Orange
National Register reference number. 98000055 - 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

1937 to 1954

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 17 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Dunlawton Avenue Historic District, surveyed 1954

Topographic sheet covering Dunlawton Avenue Historic District, surveyed 1937

Fires near this property

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Dunlawton Avenue Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 950 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 13 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
Natural	45
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2007	Natural	4.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	WF- BEVILLE ROAD
18 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF VILLAGE LANE-0739
3 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	WF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE
3 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
16 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
14 August 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Storms near this property

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Orange, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2008: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 2 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2002	Lightning	Port Orange	1 killed	A 62 year-old Port Orange man was killed by lightning outside his home.
September 2003	Lightning	Port Orange	$250,000	Lightning struck a warehouse in Port Orange. The resulting fire caused $250 thousand in damage.
April 1997	Tornado (F0)	Port Orange	$120,000	A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees.
April 1997	Tornado (F0)	Port Orange	$120,000	A small tornado touched down in the fly-in community of Spruce Creek overturning one single engine aircraft, destroying a pool enclosure and blowing down about a dozen trees.
July 1998	Tornado (F0)	Port Orange	$100,000	An F0 tornado touched down in a mobile community near Port Orange damaging 33 mobile homes and producing severe damage to two. The tornado also blew down trees and power lines.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Orange	$40,000	Thunderstorm winds overturned a mobile home and damaged two others east of Port Orange.
June 1995	Tornado (F0)	Port Orange	$20,000	A small tornado touched down briefly in rural Volusia County, about four miles north of Highway 44 along Highway 415. The tornado blew down a few trees and destroyed a pool screen.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Orange	$10,000	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Port Orange	$3,000	A few mobile homes were damaged by falling trees and quarter size hail in Port Orange.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Orange	$500	Strong thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines.
March 2008	Hail	Port Orange	-	One inch hail was reported by the public in Port Orange.
May 1997	Hail	Port Orange	-	Dime size hail fell in Port Orange.
May 1995	Hail	Port Orange	-	Dime-size hail fell in Port Orange.
July 2004	Hail	Port Orange	-	no account filed
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Orange	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Volusia County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

1937 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:48000
1943 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Port Orange quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1964 USGS Daytona Beach quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS New Smyrna Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot	0.2 miles	1998
Grace Episcopal Church and Guild Hall	0.2 miles	1998
Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins	1.0 miles	1973
Green Mound	3.1 miles	2020
South Ridgewood Elementary School	4.1 miles	2011
Howard Thurman House	4.3 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000055 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Volusia County	All 93 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.