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 Old Indian River County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Vero Beach, Florida. Located at 2145 14th Avenue, the Old Indian River County Courthouse was constructed from April 1936 to March 1937 in the Masonry Vernacular, Art Moderne style by architect W.H.”
Wikipedia article Old Indian River County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 31 National Register listings published here for Indian River County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Moderne architecture, vernacular architecture
National Register reference number.99000768- 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
273 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Indian River County Courthouse
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,355 acres in total. 51 started naturally. 28 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
58
Natural
51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
45
Misuse of fire by a minor
45
Arson/incendiarism
28
Equipment and vehicle use
16
Debris and open burning
13
Recreation and ceremony
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Smoking
2
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 Indian River County Courthouse: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, Zirconium, Titanium-Heavy Minerals. 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
Vero Beach, the town this property stands in, in 45 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 24 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Downburst winds from a severe thunderstorm produced widespread damage in Vero Beach and Gifford. Eight homes in Vero Beach had major damage mainly from falling trees. Three commercial buildings were damaged, with trees and power lines down. Wings gusted to 83 mph at Vero Beach at 0427 EST.
This tornado, the second of two to impact downtown Vero Beach, started on the west side of the tracks in Vero Beach South where a few instances of vegetative damage were noted. The circulation strengthened as it continued north along the tracks where more significant damage was noted to trees and structures between 20th St (SR 60) and the Vero Beach airport, coincident with wind gusts up to 100 mph. ||Several businesses suffered extensive roof loss and numerous trees were uprooted. Additionally, a large metal warehouse shifted off its foundation as its walls and roof collapsed near the train tracks at 19th Pl. The tornado continued north toward the Vero Beach Airport where dual-polarimetric radar data suggests the circulation quickly weakened as it approached Gifford.
Strong thunderstorm downburst winds blew down light poles at Dodgertown baseball stadium. It also blew down trees and took the roof off of a golf course clubhouse in Vero Beach.
Downburst wind from a thunderstorm swept over a mobile home community in Vero Beach producing minor exterior damage to eight mobile homes. Most of the damage was to awnings and carports.
As the main eye wall of Hurricane Jeanne crossed the coast, an F1 strength tornado-like event moved through the northeast corner of the intersection of Interstate 95 and Highway 60, west of Vero Beach. In this area there was a path of blown down trees surrounded by trees with little damage. The size ofthe area was about .5 miles by 30 yards.
Multi-day rainfall totals reached 5-10 inches across much of eastern Indian River County. The highest measured rain gauge total was 7.00 inches near Vero Beach. Temporary flooding of roadways, parking lots and yards occurred. Retention ponds and drainage canals became full or overflowed their banks.
Heavy rainfall associated with persistent cells produced urban, small stream, and roadway flooding in the Vero Beach area. Minor roadway and lowland flooding occurred within other parts of the county. The highest 3-day rainfall total reported within Indian River County, ending at 0600 EST October 10, was 15.55 inches, at a CoCoRaHS site located 4.8 miles west of Vero Beach (FL-IR-33).
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.
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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