Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1949.
From the record
“The Jorgensen's General Store is a historic site in Grant-Valkaria, Florida. It was operated by brothers Atley and Adolph Benson, members of a pioneer family of Grant.”
Wikipedia article Jorgensen's General Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 41 National Register listings published here for Brevard County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.99000711- 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
1949 to 1988
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19491988
Fires near this property
163 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Jorgensen's General Store
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,474 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 18 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
65
Equipment and vehicle use
34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
21
Arson/incendiarism
18
Recreation and ceremony
5
Debris and open burning
5
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Smoking
2
Fireworks
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
2 workings within 5 miles of Jorgensen's General Store: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand. 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
Grant, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail.
The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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.
A woman taking shelter from thunderstorm rain under a tree on a spoil island in the Indian River Lagoon was killed by lightning. Her 10 year old son and a 21 year old woman were seriously injured by the strike.
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.
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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